OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans months

OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research deployed thousands of AI agents running on GPT-Rosalind to analyze a whole-brain CRISPR atlas of millions of mouse cells, completing the analysis in 32 minutes versus an estimated several months to a year by hand. Each agent handled a single gene perturbation, analyzed cell responses and searched the literature for explanations, surfacing unexpected differences between two disease-related genes and a possible link between cholesterol regulation and neurodegeneration. In blind comparisons, human experts preferred the distributed agents' reports over a single agent's 75 percent of the time, and the resulting "Reasoning Atlas" is on GitHub with a paper on bioRxiv.