Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
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- OpenAI teamed up with PerturbAI and Scripps Research to deploy thousands of AI agents that analyzed biological data from millions of mouse cells.
- The article OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans months appeared first on The Decoder.
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- [1]Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological dataOpenAI News · Oct 21, 04:50 AM
See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
- [2]OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans monthsThe Decoder · Oct 22, 10:01 AM
OpenAI teamed up with PerturbAI and Scripps Research to deploy thousands of AI agents that analyzed biological data from millions of mouse cells.
The article OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans months appeared first on The Decoder.
- [3]Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological dataHacker News (AI, 100+ points) · Oct 21, 01:37 PM · same content
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