The food system as we know it is failing

80 years ago, we oversimplified food production to feed the growing population. The same crop was planted on thousands of acres to benefit from economies of scale. Chemical fertilizers were used to boost yields, and pesticides were applied to limit biological intervention.

It worked well for a while, but the same factors that made it scalable are collapsing under climate stress. Monocropping creates concentrated risk, depleted soils retain less water, and ecosystem loss accelerates its greatest threat: climate change itself.

We are creating the planetary infrastructure needed to train and fine-tune biological foundation models that can understand, design, and operate the intricate ecosystems required to feed the world resiliently in a post-climate change era.

Starting from the bottom half.