DeepMind's AlphaGenome: AI DNA Predictor

This Week in AI & Tech: From DNA to DMs, the Future is Getting Smarter

June 2025 has delivered a wave of cutting-edge AI breakthroughs across biology, communication, and creativity. Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome, a revolutionary model capable of predicting how genetic mutations impact biological functions at unprecedented scale and precision — a leap forward for genomic science. Meanwhile, ElevenLabs is redefining voice AI with Voice Design v3, letting anyone craft hyper-realistic, production-ready voices just by describing them. And on the messaging front, WhatsApp has introduced Message Summaries, an AI-powered feature that privately condenses unread messages so users can instantly catch up without scrolling through every chat.

From decoding DNA to designing voices and distilling conversations, the future of AI is more personal, powerful, and privacy-conscious than ever.

DeepMind’s Breakthrough AI for DNA Variant Prediction

Google DeepMind in June 2025, is a groundbreaking AI model designed to predict how single DNA variants or mutations impact a wide array of biological processes that regulate genes, offering a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of genome function than previous models. By analyzing up to 1 million DNA base pairs at single-letter resolution, AlphaGenome can predict thousands of molecular properties, such as gene start and end points, RNA production, and protein binding sites, across diverse cell types and tissues. It leverages advanced neural architectures, combining convolutional layers and transformers, to detect both short and long-range patterns in DNA, and can efficiently score the effects of genetic variants by comparing mutated and unmutated sequences. AlphaGenome stands out for its ability to jointly predict multiple modalities, including novel modeling of RNA splice junctions, and has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance across genomic benchmarks, outperforming or matching specialized models in nearly all tasks. While not intended for clinical or personal genome prediction, AlphaGenome is available via API for non-commercial research, supporting disease understanding, synthetic biology, and fundamental genomics research, though challenges remain in modeling very distant regulatory elements and capturing complex, tissue-specific patterns

ElevenLabs Launches Voice Design v3 for Next-Gen AI Voices

ElevenLabs has launched Voice Design v3 (alpha), a powerful upgrade to its AI voice generation platform that allows users to create any voice imaginable simply by describing it in a prompt. The new model delivers higher quality and a broader expressive range, enabling the generation of production-ready voices in over 70 languages with hundreds of localized accents. Users can customize voices by specifying tone, accent, age, pacing, and delivery, making it possible to design unique characters for storytelling, media, or business needs. The platform includes a voice design editor, a prompting guide, and will soon offer API access for integration into products and workflows. Voice Design v3 is currently available for free to try on the ElevenLabs dashboard, making advanced, human-like AI voice creation more accessible and versatile than ever before.

WhatsApp Unveils Private Message Summaries

WhatsApp has introduced Message Summaries, a new feature powered by Meta AI that privately and quickly summarizes unread messages in a chat, helping users catch up on conversations without reading every message in detail. Using Private Processing technology, these summaries are generated without Meta or WhatsApp ever seeing your messages or the summaries themselves, ensuring complete privacy—no one else in the chat is notified when you use this feature. Message Summaries is optional, off by default, and can be enabled for specific chats using Advanced Chat Privacy settings. The feature is currently rolling out in English to users in the United States, with plans to expand to other languages and regions later in 2025.

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Top AI Products from this week

• Integral - New age desktop app for big teams and online communities. Less interruptions, more curious questions and discussion. Every day, millions of people use apps like Slack and Discord to access the specific knowledge of their peers, so you can get work done or pursue your hobbies and self-actualize. I've redesigned this experience to redefine how people self-actualize.

• FLUX.1 Kontext - FLUX.1 Kontext by Black Forest Labs is a powerful model for in-context image editing. The 12B [dev] version is now open-weight, offering top-tier character and style consistency on consumer hardware.

• Dyad - Dyad is a free, local, open-source vibe coding tool. It's an alternative to v0, Lovable, and Bolt, but without the lock-in or limitations - you can use any AI model (including free Gemini & OpenRouter ones)! Download it for free: runs on Windows and Mac

• QuickAgent - Easily build AI agents that connect to any service without coding or MCP servers. Integrate Stripe, Slack, HubSpot & more platforms instantly with a few clicks. Deploy intelligent automation in minutes. Build free forever, only pay for what you use.

• Google.dev - Inworld develops AI products for builders of consumer applications, enabling scaled applications that grow into user needs and organically evolve through experience.

• Google Whisk - Google's new AI tool, Whisk, allows you to generate images by using other images as prompts. Simply drag in images for the subject, scene, and style, and remix them to create unique, personalized visuals without needing long text prompts.

This week in AI

• Flow Quick Start - Use detailed prompts, create reusable ingredients, animate with Ingredients to Video, set scenes with Frames to Video, and build stories in Scenebuilder.

• Doppl Virtual Try-On - Try outfits on a digital you with Doppl—just upload a full-body photo and outfit image. See looks in AI-generated videos, save, and share. Available now on iOS/Android in the US.

• CC Signals Launches - Creative Commons unveils CC Signals, a framework letting creators set AI reuse preferences for their content—aiming for open, fair, and reciprocal AI data use. Feedback open now.

• Meta Poaches OpenAI Talent - Meta hired OpenAI Zurich researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai for its superintelligence team, offering huge bonuses to boost its AI ambitions.

• Imagen 4 Launches - Imagen 4, Google’s top text-to-image model, is now in Gemini API and Google AI Studio. It offers sharper images, better text rendering, and up to 2K resolution.

• ChatGPT Record Mode - Capture, transcribe, and summarize meetings or voice notes in ChatGPT’s macOS app—available for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users at no extra cost. Great for quick, actionable notes135