Syngenta has entered into a collaboration with the Ai company InstaDeep to accelerate the development of crop seed trait research using AI Large Language Models (LLMs). The collaboration is intended to strengthen Syngenta Seeds' R&D activities and enable processes for speed, precision, and power, accelerating trait advancement while the Ai LLM will reduce cycle time and bolster decision science to bring valued solutions to farmers.

InstaDeep has developed a language model, AgroNT, trained on trillions of nucleotides from agriculturally relevant crop species to interpret the genetic code and predict how genes are regulated. The initial phase of the collaboration will focus on AI-mediated trait design for both maize and soybean.