Basecamp Research announced a Trillion Gene Atlas initiative in partnership with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics, Pacific Biosciences and Nvidia to massively expand environmental sequencing for AI‑driven therapeutic discovery. The consortium plans to generate and model genetic sequences from environmental and host‑associated samples—targeting orders‑of‑magnitude expansion of evolutionary sequence diversity used to train foundation models. Basecamp will combine high‑throughput sequencing (Ultima UG200, PacBio Revio), Nvidia Parabricks accelerated compute and Anthropic’s Claude models to scale its EDEN environment‑derived evolutionary network. The company says the expanded dataset aims to improve AI design of biologics, gene therapies and antimicrobial candidates by providing broader evolutionary contexts. Partners will generate deeply sequenced metagenomes from tens of thousands of samples spanning dozens of countries; the project signals increased venture and tech‑platform investment in foundational biological data to power AI therapeutics.