Evo 2 and the Rise of Long Context Genomics

Evo 2 and the Rise of Long Context Genomics One of the most technically important biology and AI stories of the past two weeks is the formal publication of Evo 2 in Nature on March 4, 2026. The model is not just another biological language model with a larger parameter count. What makes it significant is the combination of scale, context length, and task breadth. According to the paper, Evo 2 was trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs from a curated atlas spanning all domains of life, and it operates with a 1M token context window at single nucleotide resolution.