NATURE IS OUR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

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Periodic Neon outperforms GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 at lower cost on a highly challenging evaluation for scientific analysis. Neon is now deployed in labs to analyze experiments for better superconductors and magnets. The model establishes a Pareto-optimal cost-performance frontier through midtraining and reinforcement learning on lab data. Periodic Neon surpasses frontier models on FrontierXRD at a lower cost per analysis.