AI promises to cure disease, but can frontier models interpret the images biotech/pharma scientists handle every day?
To evaluate this, we built the ATLAS Visual Life Sciences (VIALS) benchmark: 161 visual interpretation tasks from professional life sciences workflows including gel blots, plasmid maps, molecular structures, and phylogenies. These are the images/results that experiments actually produce, not polished figures from papers or textbooks.
We benchmarked today’s 10 leading multimodal models. Opus 5, GPT 5.6, and Gemini 3.7 all fail to crack 27% accuracy, and the other models like Kimi K3 & Grok 4.6 perform much worse.
In contrast, PhD-level biomedical scientists find these visual interpretation tasks straightforward. AI that cant interpret such images will have limited utility in life sciences R&D, where such artifacts are central to how scientists reason, communicate, and make research decisions.
We hope VIALS drives progress toward models that can.
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