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Morning Edition · Saturday, November 7, 2026Published at 1:25 AM EST · New York
OpenAI's BioBasicsBench finds its best model scores 66.7% on interpreting raw wet-lab data
The 100-task benchmark, built with the enzyme-design company Ligo, reports scores only for OpenAI models and gives no human baseline, while OpenAI president Greg Brockman predicts major biology gains within 12 to 18 months.
OpenAI introduced BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark that measures how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data from routine lab work. OpenAI built it with Ligo, an enzyme-design company, according to Unite.AI. The tasks cover five…
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