OpenAI and Anthropic week 43: Claude Duet, drug-discovery lead via GPT-Rosalind, life sciences open call
btibor91 · x · 2026-10-25
Weekly roundup of OpenAI and Anthropic news (week 43):
OpenAI
- Latest models better at low-resource languages like COBOL and Fortran; MultiLangBench released on GitHub
- Locked Chats rolling out in ChatGPT behind PIN/device auth; scheduled team tasks for Enterprise
- 12-hour prompt caching in the API; cron-style automations in the Agents API
- Decisions API GA on GPT-6 Luna; models and Codex coming to Google Cloud Model Garden on request
- Acquired drug-development platform Orchestra Bio to combine with Rosalind; thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents with PerturbAI and Scripps surfaced a possible neurodegeneration lead from a mouse whole-brain CRISPR atlas
- ChatGPT Ads expanded to 26 more markets; unified safety policies and Usage Policies update; new complementary monitorability metrics on the alignment blog
Anthropic
- Claude Duet released
- Public Benefit Fund launched
- Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences: PIs at academic, nonprofit, or government labs invited to use Claude on causal human biology, molecular biology, drug discovery and clinical science
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