NVIDIA launched its Bioneo agent toolkit at BIO2026, declaring the arrival of agentic science in life sciences.
“Every single life sciences company is going to become an agentic company.”
life-sciences
8 tracked signals on life-sciences.
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind with enhanced biological reasoning for life sciences research.
OpenAI launches LifeSciBench, an expert-authored benchmark for evaluating AI on real-world life science research tasks.
“Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.”
AI agents need verifiable receipts and budget management, not just more tools, for scientific collaboration
“whenever AI agent workflow automation matures, organizations will give to the agents not only tools, they will give them budgets”
Databricks and NVIDIA launch Genesis Workbench, a blueprint for GPU-accelerated AI in life sciences.
Benchling's AI agents pair LLMs with structured lab data to roughly halve drug-discovery-to-patient time.
“What we've seen is when you kind of put these models on top of the right data, the quality answers go way up.”
AWS shows how to build a conversational protein research copilot using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Strands Agents SDK.
EMS cut drug R&D cycle from 20 months to 3 months using Databricks data platform
“This reduces the working time from 1 year and 8 months to just 3 months.”