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Allen Institute

Research organization whose Scientific Computing group reports analyzing terabytes of neurophysiology data with DuckDB on S3 since 2025.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

AI BioDesign promises a database of molecules evolution never made

The Allen Institute, the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson are building models and databases of designed proteins. David Baker told WIRED the field usually sees that something works before it knows why.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+45
Incentives66
Confidence52

build2 publishers

AWS buys DuckDB's engineers; the Foundation keeps the license

The MIT-licensed projects stay with the DuckDB Foundation, but the more than 30 people who write them would sit on AWS's payroll. No reporting line has been published.

Publishers:aws.amazon.comruntimewire.com

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption79
Hype gap+18
Incentives76
Confidence74