Nature Biotechnology published a review mapping a vision for generalist biological AI—models capable of performing diverse tasks across biological domains rather than narrow, single‑use tools. The piece outlines technical promises and pitfalls for multi‑task biological foundation models and calls for careful validation across use cases. In parallel, Basecamp Research announced the Trillion Gene Atlas with partners including Anthropic, Ultima Genomics and PacBio to expand evolutionary sequence diversity by orders of magnitude. The initiative aims to supply massive, diverse training data to accelerate AI‑driven therapeutic design and improve foundation model generalization for biology.