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Quantifying Frontier Model Performance on Antibody Discovery Tasks
We introduce an Antibody Discovery Benchmark, an experimentally grounded benchmark for testing whether AI agents can make scientific decisions across the stages of therapeutic antibody discovery.
The benchmark contains 100 evaluations span...
When It Answers, Fable 5.1 is Strong at Biology Reasoning
We’ve run Fable 5.1, Anthropic’s newest model released today, across our full set of benchmarks, including multi-omics, therapeutics, and biosecurity tasks. From the 10,552 trajectories run, we observe qualitative improvements in model reas...
Testing Grok 4.6’s Enhanced Biology Safeguards
Following the initial release of Grok 4.6, LatchBio performed testing of the latest-available version of the model on our full suite of biological-capability tests, including BiosecBench-Refusal. This benchmark tests a model’s ability to re...
We Can Detect New Pathogens in Days. Can AI Help Us Understand Them?
We introduce BioSecBench-Function, a verifiable benchmark for testing whether AI agents can infer the functional properties of viruses, bacteria, and toxins from data.
The benchmark contains 111 evaluations across five biological threat ax...
Grok 4.6 is a Frontier Biology Model
Following yesterday's Grok 4.6 release, we ran it against our short-horizon biology tasks on benchmarks.bio. Across 1716 trajectories we generated, we find that Grok 4.6 sits roughly at Opus 5/GPT-Sol-5.6 level of intelligence while being f...
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