AI for Science
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November 14, 2026
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SPU wet-lab benchmark: top model Claude Opus 5.5 scores 0.486 and beats chance on only half of tasks
UniPat AI has released Science Prediction Universe (SPU), a benchmark of 116 tasks and 4,207 wet-lab experiments. Claude Opus 5.5 posted the highest average score, 0.486, but beat the random-ranking threshold on only half of its tasks. Raising GPT-6 Astra's reasoning effort multiplied runtime and cost without a visible score gain.