Show HN: ESM C, setting a new state of the art for protein language models (evolutionaryscale.ai)

Hey HN! We're releasing ESM C, a series of protein language models that set a new state of the art. By training on metagenomics and fine-tuning on UniRef, we're able to match ESM2 650M with ESM C 300M, and ESM C 6B has incredible unsupervised contact precision performance. These models are meant to be used as base models and representation learning models for protein sequences, and we'll release a preprint describing exact details soon.