Release Notes

Release 1.0.0

Summary

This is the first release of Evo 2 NIM. Evo 2 is a biological foundation model that is able to integrate information over long genomic sequences, while retaining sensitivity to single-nucleotide changes.

This release features 40 billion parameters model trained on 11 trillion DNA nucleotides with context-length of up to 1 million DNA nucleotides.

Model Variant

• Evo 2 40B 1M

Notes and Limitations

Ensure you use this model with GPUs that have FP8 support, such as NVIDIA H100, NVIDIA H200, or newer. For more information, see Prerequisites and Support Matrix for Evo2 NIM. Older GPUs are not currently supported.

Ensure you always use the benchmarking suite so that the deployed model works as expected.