# OpenAI offers free GPT-Rosalind seats to US university labs as Google and Meta court the same scientists

The Rosalind Academic Plan gives eligible labs up to 30 seats for up to 12 months, while DeepMind published an agent-driven search for antimicrobial peptides whose lead candidate is still in wet-lab testing.

- Published: 2026-10-16T06:26:08.965Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-16/openai-offers-free-gpt-rosalind-seats-to-us-university-labs
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [OpenAI News](https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-rosalind-academic-plan), [Google DeepMind](https://deepmind.google/blog/accelerating-antimicrobial-discovery/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/)

OpenAI introduced the Rosalind Academic Plan on October 15. It gives eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind, OpenAI's life-sciences model, and the Rosalind Workbench, a tool-orchestration environment. Eligible US university…

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