🎉 Congrats to OpenAI on GPT-5.6's strong performance on Agents' Last Exam! We created Agents' Last Exam (ALE) to provide realistic, reproducible evaluations and continuous public measurements of frontier AI agents on economically valuable, real-world work across broad domains. ALE currently includes 1,500+ expert-sourced, long-horizon tasks spanning 55 non-physical occupations, contributed by 300+ experts from more than 100 institutions. All tasks are grounded in real professional work and evaluated with fully verifiable, outcome-based grading. It's exciting to see ALE becoming an important guidepost for frontier agent development—helping the community track progress, better understand emerging capabilities, and build AI systems that are increasingly reliable, capable, and useful in the real world. A huge thank you to the hundreds of experts and collaborators who have contributed to ALE. This is truly a community effort. We're continuing to expand the benchmark with new tasks and domains, and we'd love for more experts to contribute. Together, we can build an even stronger foundation for measuring progress toward capable, trustworthy Agentic AI. Submit your contribution: agents-last-exam.org/

Fresh out of the arxiv! In this work, we (Joe, @dyushag , Dorian, and myself @thg_lab ) used supervised fine tuning (SFT) and direct preference optimization (DPO) to modify Llama 3.1 into a chemical language model. See more details here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02231 (1/4)

🎙️ Our very own Dr. THG dives into "The Ethics of Emerging Technology: The Era of Artificial Intelligence" on this insightful podcast episode. Explore the critical role of ethics in AI with us! 🔗 buzzsprout.com/1204337/15285… #ArtificialIntelligence #EthicsInTech

Organized together with @thg_lab @GiEmmePi1 @GroupParrinello @mhg_group & Vanda Glezakou, with the support of @cecamEvents @IITalk and sponsored by CASALE (casale.ch)

We are delighted to host our lab alumni @Mejohnson81 for the physical chemistry seminar @UCB_Chemistry. We really enjoyed the lunch and the talk! Hope to see your new research progress soon.

Farewell #EuroQSAR selfie with @fiona_chembot and warmest congrats to her for winning the best prize award🏆

From the South Side of Chicago to Berkeley, California with Stops in Between. An Autobiography of a true legend @UCB_Chemistry. Quoting my favorite sentence: "Advice ... is to be understood and appreciated, but you must make the final judgments..." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Many experimentally known high-pressure ice phases are structurally very similar. In a new paper nature.com/articles/s41467-0… we combine a ML potential and statistical mechanics to reveal the nature of phase boundaries and suggest novel solid-solid transition mechanisms.

Today we're pleased to share this infographic NewtonNet by the @thg_lab. Check out the full paper #openaccess here: doi.org/10.1039/D2DD00008C #compchem #machinelearning

Hello new home for the next few years 👋 #Berkeley

If you're following this ongoing back and forth happening in the chemical literature, the latest rebuttal to the below has just been published in @JPhysChem Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Former MolSSI Software Fellow @chenru_duan just successfully defended his PhD @MIT under the direction of Prof. Heather Kulik. We congratulate him on this accomplishment and wish him every success as he begins his professional career!

“basic research is the foundation on which all technologic advances rest” nature.com/articles/s42254-0…

Although this is firmly grounded in the context of the physical sciences, the conceptual analysis around, e.g. renaming buildings, is excellent and applicable to many domains.

Thanks for contributing to these efforts. I was really disappointed to attend a Telluride workshop last month at which Krylov and others were offered another platform to share their regressive and harmful talking points. "Free speech" is not the same as consequence-free speech

What do we value as a community? I’ve joined John Herbert, Martin Head-Gordon, Teresa Head-Gordon, Rommie Amaro, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Roald Hoffmann, Carol Parish, Christina Payne, & Troy Van Voorhis in @JPhysChem Letters to share our view. #compchem | pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…