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  "markdown": "Lead author of Carbon-X, Hugging Face.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loubna-ben-allal-238690152\n- X: https://x.com/LoubnaBenAllal1\n- GitHub: https://github.com/loubnabnl\n\n## What Loubna builds\n\n- [Carbon-X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md), graded C, 61/100, in Open-weight models. Carbon-X is Hugging Face's open-weight 14.8B language model for DNA, a fine-tune of Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English about variant effects and regulatory regions, with a 40,960-token context, under Apache 2.0. Lead author of Carbon-X, Hugging Face, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Clément Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/clement-delangue/), Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face\n- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julien-chaumond/), Co-founder and CTO, Hugging Face\n- [Thomas Wolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-wolf/), Co-founder and CSO, Hugging Face\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Betaworks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/betaworks/)\n- [A.Capital Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/a-capital-ventures/)\n- [Lux Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lux-capital/)\n- [Addition](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/addition/)\n- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)\n- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)\n- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)\n- [AIX Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aix-ventures/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [Google](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/google/)\n- [Amazon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amazon/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Intel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/intel/)\n- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)\n- [Qualcomm](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/qualcomm/)\n- [IBM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ibm/)\n- [Sound Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sound-ventures/)\n- [Kevin Durant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kevin-durant/)\n- [Richard Socher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/richard-socher/)\n- [Greg Brockman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greg-brockman/)\n- [Rich Kleiman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rich-kleiman/)\n- [Olivier Pomel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/olivier-pomel/)\n- [Dev Ittycheria](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dev-ittycheria/)\n- [Alex Wang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alex-wang/)\n- [Aghi Marietti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aghi-marietti/)\n- [Florian Douetteau](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/florian-douetteau/)\n- [Paul St. John](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/paul-st-john/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Loubna Ben Allal?\n\nLoubna Ben Allal is lead author of Carbon-X at Hugging Face.\n\n### What does Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Carbon-X from Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine). Carbon-X is Hugging Face's open-weight 14.8B language model for DNA, a fine-tune of Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English about variant effects and regulatory regions, with a 40,960-token context, under Apache 2.0.\n\n### Who has invested in Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Betaworks, A.Capital Ventures, Lux Capital, Addition, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, SV Angel, AIX Ventures, Salesforce, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Sound Ventures, Kevin Durant, Richard Socher, Greg Brockman, Rich Kleiman, Olivier Pomel, Dev Ittycheria, Alex Wang, Aghi Marietti, Florian Douetteau and Paul St. John.\n\n### How are Loubna's tools graded?\n\nCarbon-X is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X\n- https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face\n- https://huggingface.co/clem\n- https://huggingface.co/julien-c\n- https://huggingface.co/thomwolf\n- https://huggingface.co/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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