Two Doors Into Biology: OpenAI Hands Frontier Models to 100,000 Academics While Anthropic Bolts Its Own Shut
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.