New preprint from the lab ! In short - nobody told the model what a stem-loop was, we gave it 50,000 IRES sequences and one job: predict masked nucleotides. That’s it! Albatross is an RNA language model that taught itself the structural logic of viral RNA the same way LLMs learn grammar- from sequence alone. No base pairing rules, no thermodynamics, no structure labels. Check it out-https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.19.726202v1.full.pdf+html and http://www.albatrossrna.org