Frontier LLMs still can't handle basic molecular cloning tasks
nlarusstone · x · 2026-10-31
The author cautions that despite the hype, LLMs are still not good at biology: even basic molecular cloning tasks are beyond the reach of frontier models — a sobering counterpoint to universal-LLM claims.
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