SMolInstruct
Models solve 14 chemistry tasks such as name conversion, property prediction, molecule captioning, generation and reaction prediction. Each task uses its own metric on the test split.
It is an instruction-tuning dataset with a test split. Shanghai AI Lab Intern-S models report the test split as a benchmark.
- Released
- February 2024
- Kind
- Genomics and life sciences
- Level
- Expert
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Short answer
- Tasks
- All public
- Last in a launch post
- February 2026, dropped before it saturated
- Last model added
- March 2026
Intern-S1-Pro leads with 74.8%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
- 1
Intern-S1-Pro 74.8%
- 2
Intern-S1 51%
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 74.8% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | | 51% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card |
2 models have held number one in labs’ own numbers since its release in February 2024
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Labs headline it less often now, last in February 2026
Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2026 | 74.8 | SmolInstruct (Small Molecule) | |
| Jul 24, 2025 | 51 | SmolInstruct |
2 system cards report it, from 1 lab
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | | 74.8 | SmolInstruct, Small Molecule, non-thinking (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| Aug 21, 2025 | | 51 | SmolInstruct, official test split (Table 3) | Capabilities |
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