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 | **COVID**                      | 22.2    | 23.3         | 62.2        | **73.0**          | 71.9          | 72.5           |
 | **Global Win %**               | 0.0     | 0.0          | 7.1         | 21.4              | 25.0          | **46.4**       |
 
+## **Safety Considerations**
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+- **Potential Risks**: METAGENE-1 is a metagenomic model designed for biosurveillance and anomaly detection, but future larger variants could pose risks if misused for synthetic biology tasks, such as designing pathogenic sequences.
+- **Purpose and Capabilities**: Unlike models aimed at long-sequence generation, METAGENE-1 is optimized for detecting anomalies in short metagenomic reads (100-300 base pairs) and is limited by its 512-token context length, minimizing design misuse.
+- **Open Source Impact**: We believe open-sourcing METAGENE-1 will positively impact research in pathogen monitoring, but we advocate for stricter safety evaluations before releasing more capable future models.
 
 ## **Model Details**
-- **Release Date**: Dec XX 2024
+- **Release Date**: Jan 06 2025
 - **Model License**: Apache 2.0