Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs

We’re introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan to help more academic scientists access GPT‑Rosalind⁠, our dedicated life sciences model, which combines frontier reasoning with Rosalind workbench⁠(opens in a new window) that enables specialized tool orchestration across medicinal chemistry, genomics, wet-lab assistance, and other scientific applications. Eligible labs can receive up to 30 Business Standard seats at no cost for up to 12 months, with access to GPT‑Rosalind subject to trusted-access approval.

Academic research creates knowledge that entire fields build on. Work that begins with a fundamental question about biology can eventually change how we diagnose disease, develop medicines, or grow food. But those advances depend on scientists having the resources to explore ideas, test them, and share what they learn.

Accelerating scientific discovery is central to OpenAI’s mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. With this plan, we’re investing in the scientists doing that foundational work—helping more labs combine their expertise and judgment with AI tools built for life sciences research.

Many of the advances we rely on today grew out of years of basic research.

The Human Genome Project helped launch modern genomics, transforming medicine, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

Curiosity-driven work on bacterial immune systems led to CRISPR-Cas9, which revolutionized genome editing and is now advancing research in cancer, inherited disease, agriculture, and biotechnology. Decades of university research on mRNA also laid the groundwork for COVID-19 vaccines and a new generation of vaccines and therapies.

Academic research has always laid the groundwork for advances in medicine and biotechnology. By helping more scientists combine their scientific expertise and judgment with the advanced specialized reasoning of GPT‑Rosalind, we hope to support discoveries whose benefits reach far beyond the lab.

OpenAI is committed to enabling academic researchers to pursue their scientific ambitions. Distinguished academic labs are already exploring how GPT‑Rosalind can support work ranging from protein design to understanding neurodegeneration. These examples show where researchers are applying the model within their scientific workflows.

With the new Rosalind Academic Plan, academic researchers can bring GPT‑Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench to their lab with greater flexibility and harness frontier model intelligence for scientific research.

Eligible labs receive:

Research data shared through the Rosalind Academic Plan is not used to train our models by default.

GPT‑Rosalind is a specialized life sciences model designed to support deeper reasoning on complex biological questions. Through trusted access, approved researchers can use it to investigate sensitive scientific questions within safeguards designed for legitimate research.

Areas of research include:

The Rosalind Academic Plan is currently available to academic labs at U.S. universities. PIs and lab leads at universities without an OpenAI Enterprise agreement can apply on behalf of their labs through our trusted access process. Labs at universities with an existing agreement must apply through their university’s Enterprise access process.

Once approved, PIs and lab leads can activate free access to GPT‑Rosalind for up to 30 named members, alongside the other OpenAI frontier models included in the plan. API access is not included at this time. Verified PIs and lab leads manage member permissions and are responsible for their lab’s approved use.

Choose the application path for your lab or organization.

GPT‑Rosalind access is subject to approval.

Before activating access, we:

Safeguards continue after activation through monitoring and enforcement. For registered high-sensitivity use cases, our safety checks account for the approved research context. When questions arise, we may follow up with researchers to clarify the work and confirm authorization. This approach is designed to detect potential misuse while accounting for legitimate research context and reducing unnecessary interruptions to authorized work.

We’re starting with academic labs as part of a broader effort to put useful AI tools in the hands of more scientists. By lowering the cost of access, we hope to give more researchers room to pursue ideas whose benefits could reach far beyond their own labs—from a clearer understanding of disease to better treatments and more resilient food systems.

Those advances will come from scientists asking important questions and doing the work to answer them. We want to help more of them do that work.