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GPT-5 directs a wet lab to a 79x better cloning protocol

development2025-12-17

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OpenAI and Red Queen Bio put GPT-5 in charge of a wet lab, where it directed humans and robots to invent a cloning protocol 79x more efficient than standard methods.

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Reporting date: 2025-12-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 17, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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GPT-5 directs a wet lab to a 79x better cloning protocol
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Reporting date: 2025-12-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-17-gpt5-runs-wet-lab
Claim: OpenAI and Red Queen Bio put GPT-5 in charge of a wet lab, where it directed humans and robots to invent a cloning protocol 79x more efficient than standard methods.
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- Welcome to December 17, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-17-2025
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