AI Designer Babies? Thiel-Backed Startup Claims 14-Point IQ Boost

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AI Designer Babies? Thiel-Backed Startup Claims 14-Point IQ Boost A startup backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund says its latest model can sort IVF embryos by intelligence, with 14 IQ points between the top and bottom of a batch of ten. "AI is rapidly getting smarter. Now, humanity can too," Nucleus Genomics founder Kian Sadeghi wrote on Sept. 18 , announcing Vitruvian, the company's newest set of "genetic optimization models." "Vitruvian's intelligence model can optimize embryo DNA for 14 IQ points - nearly a standard deviation," he said, adding that the models were trained on more than a…

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