BioMap and Breeding Biotech Forge Strategic Partnership to Pioneer 'AI + Agriculture' Innovation

Recently, BioMap, a pioneer in global life science foundational large models, has formed a strategic partnership with Borui Di Biotechnology, a leader in agricultural biotechnology. The two parties will integrate their advantageous resources and innovate cooperation models to jointly explore the research and development and promotion of comprehensive solutions in the field of agricultural large models, injecting new momentum into the upgrading of agricultural technology and firmly occupying the high ground of global agricultural AI applications.

Powerful Combination

Three Major Directions to Build a New Ecosystem for "AI + Agriculture" Cooperation

Amid the wave of technology empowering industries, the intelligent transformation in the agricultural field has become an industry consensus. The two parties in this cooperation are leaders in their respective fields, forming a "golden partnership" of "AI technology breakthrough + deep cultivation of industrial implementation."

As a global pioneer in foundational large models for life sciences, BioMap, with its 210 billion-parameter cross-modal biological language model xTrimo, holds core advantages in decoding the underlying biological rules of genomes, proteins, and more. Its high-quality AI task models for life sciences have achieved state-of-the-art performance across hundreds of tasks in drug discovery, biomanufacturing, and other fields, serving hundreds of users worldwide. It has also made numerous breakthroughs in areas like AI-driven novel protein design and target discovery. With this expansion into agriculture, BioMap will inject its mature large-scale AI model capabilities into agricultural scenarios, providing foundational technological support for industrial upgrading.

Boruida Biotechnology has been deeply engaged in the field of agricultural biotechnology for many years, focusing on gene sequencing for animals and plants, molecular breeding technology R&D, AI-driven integrated dry-wet protein design and validation services. The company has accumulated extensive expertise in core technology areas such as genotyping and agricultural breeding technical services. Boruida has established a comprehensive technical service system, equipped with advanced laboratory facilities and a professional team, offering full-chain solutions from gene discovery to variety improvement. With precise and efficient services, Boruida has served hundreds of agricultural research institutions, seed companies, and planting bases across China, with over 2.9 million samples tested and more than 2,000 clients served. It has gained an excellent reputation in crop breeding, livestock and poultry improvement, laying a solid foundation for the industrial application of its technologies.

This strategic cooperation aims at "mutual benefit, common development" and seeks to build a multi-dimensional collaborative ecosystem through resource sharing, complementary advantages, and business innovation, achieving a synergistic effect of 1+1>2. The two parties will focus on three major directions for in-depth cooperation: joint cultivation of AI industry talent, co-research on core technology projects, and sharing of high-quality data resources. Based on this, they will jointly launch a new AI agricultural biotechnology model for future breeding, titled “Big Data + Large Models + Major Varieties,” focusing on breakthroughs in key breeding processes, overcoming technical bottlenecks, and breaking down data barriers between AI model training and industrial applications. This collaboration will accelerate the intelligent and efficient transformation of China’s traditional agricultural biotechnology breeding sector and bridge the "last mile" between scientific research and industry.

Strategic Significance

Empower the revitalization of the seed industry and boost the development of new agricultural productivity.

The achievement of this strategic cooperation is a concrete action by both parties in response to China's national strategies of innovation-driven development, the strategy of building a strong country with talent, and the call for the revitalization of the seed industry. BioMap's large-scale AI model technology will provide an efficient tool for the deep mining and application of agricultural biological data; while Barium’s industrial experience can enable technological innovation to more precisely meet market demands. By joining hands, the two parties will effectively reduce the cost of implementing agricultural AI and enhance the efficiency of technology transfer, providing a reference-worthy cooperative model for the intelligent transformation of the agricultural industry. From algorithm iterations in the lab to crop variety improvements in the fields, this powerful "AI + Agriculture" collaboration is paving new paths for the innovative development of agricultural technology.

In the future, both parties will take this cooperation as an opportunity to continuously deepen the integration of industry, academia, and research, fostering more breakthrough achievements. This will contribute significantly to ensuring national food security, promoting the revitalization of the seed industry, and achieving agricultural modernization!