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OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free frontier model access with 75+ life science skills. Anthropic's newest flagship refuses to explain mitochondria. Both companies claim to be managing the same biosecurity risk — and the gap between their answers tells you how unsettled AI-for-biology governance really is.
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A multimodal benchmark of 322 expert-validated questions finds OpenAI's o3 outperforms 94% of PhD virologists on troubleshooting complex lab protocols. We unpack what changed, what it doesn't prove, and why pandemic-preparedness planners should care.
For about three years, the standard frontier-lab position on biology was defensive. Biology was the scary quadrant of the risk matrix.
