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Colossal Biosciences dire wolf pups representing AI-driven de-extinction at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Top3 min read
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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, AI Meets De-Extinction: Can We Engineer Nature's Comeback?

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm takes the Real World AI Stage Oct 13-15 at Moscone West to explain how AI-driven genome editing revived the dire wolf and is pushing the woolly mammoth to the early 2030s.

Why it matters

For founders and investors, it shows AI plus synthetic biology moving from demo to $10B-scale venture, with spin-out Astromech now valued at $2B for predicting where living systems break.