ChatGPT and other large language models have seen a surge in popularity in recent months, transforming firms like OpenAI into multi-billion dollar businesses and amassing hundreds of millions of users worldwide, employing the tool to summarise reports, answer queries or write people’s homework.
But in a small office block wedged in between St Pancras Station and Google’s giant new London headquarters, a team of researchers is exploring another purpose for large language models: to understand the language of DNA.
