Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research

Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research | OpenAI

April 16, 2026

Introducing GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research

A new purpose-built model to accelerate scientific research and drug discovery.

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Today, we’re introducing GPT‑Rosalind, our frontier reasoning model built to support research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. The life sciences model series is optimized for scientific workflows, combining improved tool use with deeper understanding across chemistry, protein engineering, and genomics.

On average, it takes roughly 10 to 15 years to go from target discovery to regulatory approval for a new drug in the United States. Gains made at the earliest stages of discovery compound downstream in better target selection, stronger biological hypotheses and higher-quality experiments. Progress in the life sciences is constrained not only by the difficulty of the underlying science, but by the complexity of the research workflows themselves. Scientists must work across large volumes of literature, specialized databases, experimental data, and evolving hypotheses in order to generate and evaluate new ideas. These workflows are often time-intensive, fragmented, and difficult to scale.

We believe advanced AI systems can help researchers move through these workflows faster—not just by making existing work more efficient, but by helping scientists explore more possibilities, surface connections that might otherwise be missed, and arrive at better hypotheses sooner. By supporting evidence synthesis, hypothesis generation, experimental planning, and other multi-step research tasks, this model is designed to help researchers accelerate the early stages of discovery. Over time, these systems could help life sciences organizations discover breakthroughs that wouldn’t otherwise be possible, with a much higher rate of success.

GPT‑Rosalind is now available as a research preview in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API for qualified customers through our trusted access program. We’re also introducing a freely accessible Life Sciences research plugin for Codex, helping scientists connect models to over 50 scientific tools and data sources. We are working with customers like Amgen, Moderna, the Allen Institute, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and others to apply GPT‑Rosalind across workflows that accelerate research and discovery.

The model is named after Rosalind Franklin, whose rigorous research helped reveal the structure of DNA and laid foundations for modern molecular biology.

From raw data to grounded discovery decisions, see how our purpose-built model accelerates research workflows.

Built for scientific workflows

The GPT‑Rosalind life sciences model series is built for modern scientific work across published evidence, data, tools, and experiments. In our evaluations, it delivers the best performance on tasks that require reasoning over molecules, proteins, genes, pathways, and disease-relevant biology, and it is more effective at using scientific tools and databases in multi-step workflows such as literature review, sequence-to-function interpretation, experimental planning, and data analysis.

This is the first release in our GPT‑Rosalind life sciences model series, and we will continue to expand the frontiers of the model’s biochemical reasoning capabilities across long-horizon, tool-heavy scientific workflows. OpenAI’s compute infrastructure gives us the ability to continue training, evaluating, and improving increasingly capable domain models against real scientific tasks—helping these systems become more useful as the workflows themselves become more complex.

From evidence-based discovery insights to high-impact experiments, see how our suite of solutions translate into measurable improvements in your research workflows.

Customers and ecosystem

We are working with leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and research customers, as well as life sciences technology organizations, to apply GPT‑Rosalind across workflows that drive discovery.

> “The life sciences field demands precision at every step. The questions are highly complex, the data are highly unique, and the stakes are incredibly high. Our unique collaboration with OpenAI enables us to apply their most advanced capabilities and tools in new and innovative ways with the potential to accelerate how we deliver medicines to patients.”

—Sean Bruich, Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Data, Amgen

Performance and evaluation

We evaluated GPT‑Rosalind across a range of capabilities fundamental to scientific discovery and industry research. These evaluations measure core reasoning across scientific subdomains, including chemical reaction mechanisms; protein structure, mutation effects, and interactions; and phylogenetic interpretation of DNA sequences. They also assess whether models can support real research workflows by interpreting experimental outputs, identifying expert-relevant patterns, and synthesizing external information to design follow-up experiments. Finally, they test whether models can select and use the right computational tools, databases, and domain-specific capabilities to augment their reasoning. Taken together, these evaluations show progress across the end-to-end process of scientific research and suggest a stronger ability to help researchers work through challenging discovery tasks.

Prompt

I am planning a base-promoted SNAr coupling of 1-(pyridin-3-yl)ethanol with 1-fluoro-2-nitrobenzene with the goal of synthesizing 1-(pyridin-3-yl)ethyl 2-nitrophenyl ether. I found several patents that describe room-temperature O-arylation of alcohols in DMF/Cs2CO3, but the reaction is taking longer than I would like. How can I improve this reaction? Help me find any relevant literature or patents as well.

Industry evaluations

We evaluated GPT‑Rosalind on a series of public benchmarks. On BixBench, a benchmark designed around real-world bioinformatics and data analysis, GPT‑Rosalind achieved leading performance among models with published scores.

On LABBench2, a benchmark measuring performance on a range of research tasks such as literature retrieval, database access, sequence manipulation and protocol design, GPT‑Rosalind outperforms GPT‑5.4 on 6 out of 11 tasks. The most notable improvement comes from CloningQA, which requires end-to-end design of DNA and enzyme reagents for molecular cloning protocols.

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