Colossal Biosciences announces new AI platform to help accelerate de-extinction efforts

TechCrunch · Dominic-Madori Davis · 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC

Colossal announced a new AI platform to help accelerate its de-extinction efforts and Peter Diamandis has launched a new fund to back startups who use it.

Colossal Biosciences announced Wednesday a new AI platform to help accelerate its efforts to bring back extinct species, TechCrunch can exclusively report.

The platform, called GenoMorph, uses advanced 3D morphology, comparative genomics, and developmental biology to identify genes that could be edited in de-extinction projects with limited gene data. The company is using it as part of its effort to bring back the dodo bird, for which there are limited genomes to work with.

For example, the company is working with only one dodo genome compared to the 100 genomes it has been able to obtain as part of its woolly mammoth de-extinction project. DNA from the woolly mammoth is more plentiful because the colder climates the animal lived in preserve the DNA better than the tropics where the dodo lived, the company said.

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