# Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open 14.8B DNA language model that reads DNA and answers in English

> Original title: Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, a 14B Open DNA Language Model that Brings DNA and Natural Language Together for the First Time

- Source: MarkTechPost
- Published: 2026-10-25T16:53:40.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/h4b9sn1kv4l02epx72no9y664
- Original: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/25/hugging-face-carbon-x-14b-dna-language-model/

## Summary

Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open-weight 14.8B-parameter model that reads raw DNA and answers in English, under Apache 2.0. It averages 66.7% on five DNA benchmarks, self-reported, and runs on one 80 GB GPU, while scoring 29.8% on GenomeQA splice-site questions.