The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in collaboration with partners 10x Genomics, Ultima Genomics, and a group of leading researchers, has launched the Billion Cells Project, an effort to generate an unprecedented one billion cell dataset to fuel rapid progress in AI model development in biology. Once completed, this single-cell data set will bring critical new data and resolution to multiple domains of biology that need comprehensive resources such as mapping genetic perturbations across di...