Singapore, Sept. 29 -- Viome Life Sciences has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Druk Holding & Investments Ltd (DHI), the investment arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan, and Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), the Special Administrative Region of Bhutan, established with its own legal and financial system, to explore the development of a Molecular Foundation Model in Bhutan. The agreement, signed in New York recently, is the first step toward a defined investment proposition and definitive agreements.

Viome would contribute its metatranscriptomic dataset and its expertise in building a Molecular Foundation Model into the effort. A Molecular Foundation Model is an artificial intelligence (AI) system trained on population-scal...