Periodic Neon Tops FrontierXRD at Lower Cost

Periodic Neon beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierXRD, a tough scientific analysis eval, at lower cost per analysis - and it's already deployed in labs analyzing superconductor and magnet experiments. Midtraining plus RL on lab data is producing a Pareto-optimal cost-performance frontier, not just another benchmark flex.