Openai · Ars Technica
OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
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GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.
Key facts
- Wang said the company had taken an LLM and trained it on 50 of the most common biological workflows, as well as on how to access the major public databases of biological information
- On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows
- In a press briefing, Yunyun Wang, OpenAI’s Life Sciences Product Lead, said the system was designed to tackle two major roadblocks faced by current biology researchers
- A more limited Life Sciences Research Plugin will be made generally available
Summary
On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. In a press briefing, Yunyun Wang, OpenAI’s Life Sciences Product Lead, said the system was designed to tackle two major roadblocks faced by current biology researchers. The second is that biology has many highly specialized subfields, each with its own techniques and jargon. So, for example, a geneticist who finds themselves working on a gene that’s active in brain cells might struggle to understand the immense neurobiological literature. Wang said the company had taken an LLM and trained it on 50 of the most common biological workflows, as well as on how to access the major public databases of biological information. To address LLMs’ tendencies toward sycophancy and overenthusiasm, OpenAI says it has tuned the model to be more skeptical, so it’s more likely to tell you when something is a bad drug target.
Given past experience, it’s likely they'll see a mix of glowing reports about unexpected connections the AI finds, as well as instances where it produces obviously erroneous suggestions. A more limited Life Sciences Research Plugin will be made generally available. As noted above, several other companies have made science-focused agentic LLMs available, but those were much less focused than GPT-Rosalind, which is biology-specific.