# Radical Numerics launches Omnii Defense to spot AI‑engineered pathogens

> The San Francisco startup released a laptop‑compatible model that flags natural and AI‑created threats, even offline.

Oossa · 2026-11-11 · https://oossa.com/en/radical-numerics-launches-omnii-defense-to-spot-ai-engineered-pathogens

Radical Numerics announced Omnii Defense, an edge AI model that runs on a laptop with a USB gene sequencer and does not need internet. The tool gives each genome a threat score from zero to one, indicating how likely it is pathogenic or AI‑generated. It can also suggest the taxonomic group the sequence resembles. The company says the model can spot risky sequences that older tools miss, even when the virus species was omitted from its training data.

## The facts

- Radical Numerics was founded in 2025.
- Omnii Defense assigns a threat score between 0 and 1 for each genome.

## Why it matters

Public‑health labs could use the offline tool to detect emerging biological threats in remote field settings.

## Sources & references

1. [A Startup Wants to Fight AI Bioweapons With AI](https://www.wired.com/story/startup-fights-ai-bioweapons-with-ai/) – Wired, 2026-11-11

Last updated: 2026-11-11