# Outpost Bio
*Foundation models for human microbiology. Apache-2.0.*

Outpost Bio Inc. (Delaware C-corp, VC-funded) builds foundation models pre-trained on the largest assembled human microbiome corpus. Our open-source models — Waypoint — are designed to be fine-tuned on your own data. Co-founded by [Jenny Yang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyyang259/) and [Alex Merwin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmerwin/); ML team: [Neythen Treloar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neythentreloar/), [Saif Ur-Rehman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saif-u-1a19a01b/).

# Join our Community

Join our [Slack Community](https://join.slack.com/t/outpostbio-waypoint/shared_invite/zt-3w6ivgtba-WJOCkdxiISxQpwVq9ZZxTA) community for support and discussion about microbiome foundation models.

# Say Hello

Builders: waypoint@outpost.bio    Partnerships: collaborations@outpost.bio