Ginkgo's autonomous lab, steered by OpenAI's GPT-5, cuts the cost of a lab protein-making recipe by 40%

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GPT-5 designed six rounds of experiments that Ginkgo's robots ran, testing 36,000 mixes for cell-free protein production across 580 plates. The best recipe made a standard test protein for $422 per gram versus the $698 previously reported, and Ginkgo now sells it.