
OpenAI Releases GPT-Rosalind for Drug Discovery
OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind on April 16, a frontier reasoning model for drug discovery that outranked human experts on RNA prediction and competes directly with Google DeepMind's AlphaFold.
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OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind on April 16, a frontier reasoning model for drug discovery that outranked human experts on RNA prediction and competes directly with Google DeepMind's AlphaFold.

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