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OpenAI: GPT-5 demonstrates the ability to assist scientific research in real laboratory environments
Golden Finance reports that according to AXIOS, OpenAI has for the first time revealed that GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to assist scientific research in real laboratory environments, indicating that artificial intelligence is expected to play a more central role in scientific experiments. Although AI has made rapid progress in fields such as mathematics and physics, significant breakthroughs in biology have been relatively slow, as biology heavily relies on real-world laboratory work rather than just computational simulations. OpenAI has partnered with the biotech startup Red Queen Bio to build a testing framework to evaluate AI model performance in laboratories. These laboratories involve "wet" operations such as liquids, chemicals, and biological samples, distinguishing them from "dry" laboratories focused mainly on data analysis. In the experiments, GPT-5 proposed improvements to the molecular cloning experimental process. Human scientists carried out the experiments, then fed the results back to GPT-5, which iteratively refined its suggestions based on the feedback.