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OpenAI introduces a benchmark for agents reading raw lab evidence
OpenAI and Ligo developed BioBasicsBench with 100 routine wet-lab tasks using raw images, instrument outputs and records. In OpenAI’s own evaluation, GPT-6 Astra averaged 66.7% of available credit at xhigh effort, and the article documents several failures. This measures a narrow research setting; it does not establish that agents can run a laboratory reliably.
Primary source · OpenAI · November 6, 2026
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