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Michael Poli

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Co-founder & Chief AI Scientist at Radical Numerics

Poli co-developed the Hyena family of AI architectures, designed to process very long inputs more efficiently than standard attention-based models. HyenaDNA applied this approach to genetic code and helped provide the technical foundation for the Evo models, which learn patterns across DNA, RNA and proteins.

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Co-founder & Chief AI Scientist
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

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