# OpenAI — Measuring AI’s capability to accelerate biological research

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-12-16T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Models affected: GPT-5
- Source: https://openai.com/index/accelerating-biological-research-in-the-wet-lab
- Record: https://forck.live/items/334-measuring-ai-s-capability-to-accelerate-biological-research

OpenAI introduces a real-world evaluation framework to measure AI's capability to accelerate biological research, using GPT-5 to optimize a molecular cloning protocol and exploring promise and risks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/accelerating-biological-research-in-the-wet-lab:

> OpenAI introduces a real-world evaluation framework to measure how AI can accelerate biological research in the wet lab.

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