OpenAI Blog
Dec 16, 2025
Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks
OpenAI introduces FrontierScience, a benchmark testing AI reasoning in physics, chemistry, and biology to measure progress toward real scientific research.
Measuring AI’s capability to accelerate biological research
OpenAI introduces a real-world evaluation framework to measure how AI can accelerate biological research in the wet lab. Using GPT-5 to optimize a molecular cloning protocol, the work explores both the promise and risks of AI-assisted experimentation.
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Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
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Measuring Biological Capabilities and Risks of AI Agents
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Accelerating life sciences research
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Consensus accelerates research with GPT-5 and Responses API
Consensus uses GPT-5 and OpenAI’s Responses API to power a multi-agent research assistant that reads, analyzes, and synthesizes evidence in minutes—helping over 8 million researchers accelerate scientific discovery.
arXiv AI
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ABC-Bench: An Agentic Bio-Capabilities Benchmark for Biosecurity
arXiv:2606. 11150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly acquiring capabilities relevant to biological research, from literature synthesis to interpretation of experimental data.
OpenAI Blog
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Introducing GeneBench-Pro
Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.
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Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist
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OpenAI Blog
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A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry
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Strengthening America’s AI leadership with the U.S. National Laboratories
OpenAI’s latest line of reasoning models will be used by nation’s leading scientists to drive scientific breakthroughs.
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Team update
The OpenAI team is now 45 people. Together, we’re pushing the frontier of AI capabilities—whether by validating novel ideas, creating new software systems, or deploying machine learning on robots.