Coding Agents Rebuilt Parts of a Withheld Bio Tool for Under $20

A UK government evaluation gave four coding agents a paper, a training set and one GPU. Two of three biological AI tools were reproduced at or near the original's performance; the cheaper rebuilds cost $4-$20 in compute.

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