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China introduces upgraded AI foundation model to accelerate scientific discovery
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Fusion42 · 17 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
China's Academy of Sciences has released ScienceOne Omni, an upgraded AI foundation model designed for scientific discovery across disciplines, trained on 8 million scientific reasoning samples and outperforming GPT-5.5 and Gemini-3.1-Pro on domain-specific benchmarks. The model is already deployed across 50+ Chinese research institutes, 30+ universities, and state enterprises, with an integrated platform pooling 8,000 professional research tools and running on domestic chips.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models and AI Infrastructure.
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If you're building domain-specific AI for science or engineering, you now have a published benchmark: ScienceOne Omni beats GPT-5.5 on chemistry, physics and astronomy tasks, and it's already live across 80+ institutions. Your narrow model needs to prove it outperforms this, or get acquired by the labs already using it.
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