New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- OpenAI on December 16 announced FrontierScience, a new benchmark designed to evaluate artificial intelligence systems on expert-level scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry and biology, as AI models increasingly demonstrate their ability to support real scientific research.

The company said reasoning lies at the heart of scientific work, going beyond factual recall to include hypothesis generation, testing, refinement and cross-disciplinary synthesis. As AI systems grow more capable, OpenAI said the key question is how deeply they can reason to meaningfully contribute to scientific discovery.

Over the past year, OpenAI's models have reached major milestones, including gold-medal-level performance at the Int...