Living Models is a Paris- and Berkeley-based company developing AI foundation models for biological data, beginning with plant biology. Its flagship BOTANIC technology is a family of transformer models trained on genomic sequences from 43 plant species, with up to one billion parameters. Despite being trained on just eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs, BOTANIC reportedly matches state-of-the-art genomic models across 22 benchmark tasks, demonstrating efficient scaling. The company aims to meaningfully shorten crop breeding timelines and expand access to genomic selection beyond the largest seed companies, with a longer-term vision of foundation models that learn the language of living systems. Living Models emerged from stealth in 2026 with a $7M seed round co-led by Asterion Ventures and The Galion Project, joined by Kima Ventures, STATION F, and UC Berkeley.