AI for Science
Scientific discovery, drug design, materials science, and AI-driven research acceleration. Accelerating humanity's understanding of the world.
Key Benchmarks
Recent Papers
ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research
Sohyeon Kim, Yoonho Lee, Bo Liu +11 more
Mimir: Physics-Grounded LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Irrigation Control
Yimeng Liu, Mi Zhang, Younsuk Dong +1 more
Predictive Credit: Measuring What Scientific Explanations Add to Experimental Forecasts
Jingjie Ning, Xueqi Li, Yibo Kong +1 more
How Good Are Frontier Models at Physics? Expert Re-Grading Reveals Broken Evaluations and Near-Saturation of Leading Benchmarks
Ali Ansari, Haoran Sun, Andy Zeyi Liu +48 more
Code as Worlds: Agentic Discovery of Executable World Representations for Physical Reasoning
Hanyang Wang, Yimo Cai, Weiliang Chen +14 more
Code as Worlds: Agentic Discovery of Executable World Representations for Physical Reasoning
Hanyang Wang, Yimo Cai, Weiliang Chen +14 more
MOT-SR: Multi-Objective Tool-Augmented Scientific Equation Discovery with Large Language Models
Boxiao Wang, Runxiang Wang, Kai Li +4 more
TerraNova: A Foundation Model for the Anthropocene
Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Massimo Tavoni
ProofCouncil: An LLM Agent for Solving Open Mathematical Problems
Johannes Schmitt, Tim Gehrunger, Jasper Dekoninck +4 more
LongMedBench: Benchmarking Medical Agents for Long-Horizon Clinical Decision-Making
Yanzhen Chen, Zihan Xu, Xiaocheng Zhang +4 more
Recent Milestones
Genesis Mission gets multi‑billion SI compute push
On October 8, 2026, the Trump administration announced over 6 billion dollars in science initiatives, including 2.4 billion dollars in super intelligence compute tools and credits from eleven industry partners for the Genesis Mission. Anthropic separately committed 150 million dollars over three years to provide Claude access and support for Genesis projects, while the Department of Energy awarded 159 million dollars to a new cohort of Genesis Mission AI science projects.
Genesis Mission lands $1B+ AI science pledges
Axios reported on October 7, 2026 that the White House will host an AI science summit on Thursday under the Genesis Mission program, with President Trump expected to attend. The administration plans to announce more than $1 billion in industry commitments from AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and other partners to support AI powered scientific research.
Biohub, US and Big Tech back $1.8B AI cell push
Axios reported on October 7, 2026 that Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta to build a universal virtual cell using AI. The multi party effort pools about $1.8 billion in funding, data, compute and measurement technology, including more than $500 million from DOE, over $500 million in NIH backed datasets, $300 million from Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs plus Meta, and an earlier $500 million Biohub commitment.
OpenAI exposes 722 AI written math papers
Chinese outlet Softunis reports that on October 7, 2026, OpenAI released more than 700 mathematics research manuscripts, all generated by an unreleased internal AI model, covering areas such as algebra and geometry. Independent English coverage says 722 manuscripts organised into 372 families were published in a public GitHub repository alongside a note on “Sharing AI progress in mathematics.”
OpenAI frontier model tackles hundreds of open math problems
On October 6, 2026 OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts, grouped into 372 result families, produced by an internal frontier AI model. The Indian Express reported the release on October 7, 2026 at 08:44 AM IST, highlighting claims of progress on hundreds of open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
OpenAI drops 722 AI math papers for auditing
OpenAI’s October 6, 2026 research release detailing 722 mathematical manuscripts from an internal frontier model is now being widely covered on October 8, 2026, including in French outlet Stynx. The company has posted the papers, Lean formalizations and methodological notes in a public GitHub repository so mathematicians can audit, extend or refute the AI produced proofs.
Anthropic puts Claude in the wet lab
Anthropic has confirmed it is running a wet biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area where its Claude models help design and run physical experiments. The lab focuses on fundamental biology, alongside a new Life Sciences Verification Program, according to reports published on September 18, 2026.
Claude gets its own wet lab for drug science
Reuters reported on September 18, 2026 that Anthropic has quietly established a physical biology laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area to test AI-generated hypotheses as it ramps up an AI drug program. Business Today and other outlets say the lab will let Claude-driven systems run high-throughput experiments and close the loop between model predictions and real-world biology, even as Anthropic stresses the facility is focused on preclinical research, not direct drug development.
ByteDance Spinout Anew Labs Raises $290M
The South China Morning Post reports that ByteDance spin off Anew Labs has raised US$290 million at a US$1.5 billion valuation to fund its AI driven drug discovery platform. Investors include HSG (formerly Sequoia China), IDG Capital and 5Y Capital, while ByteDance retains a 56 percent stake in the Shanghai based company. ([scmp.com](https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3367926/bytedance-spin-anew-labs-raises-us290m-ai-drug-developers-enjoy-fundraising-boom?utm_source=rss_feed))
Gates Foundation puts $1B into 'AI for equity
On September 15, 2026, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $1 billion, two-year commitment to expand access to AI for low‑income countries. The funds will support local-language models, AI-enabled health and education tools, and decision-support systems for small farmers, as detailed in its latest Goalkeepers report.
NSA Stands Up Dedicated AI Mission Center
On September 13, 2026, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that NSA director Gen. Joshua Rudd has approved a major restructuring that creates five new mission centers, including one dedicated to artificial intelligence. Greek cybersecurity outlet SecNews added on September 14 that the AI, China, cybersecurity, combat support and global intelligence centers will be led by powerful “mission directors” and are slated to be operational by January 2027.
China boosts AI compute for biopharma R&D
On September 13, 2026, Beijing’s national AI medical pilot base launched China’s first 100 million yuan biopharma manufacturing support plan at an “AI plus healthcare” forum during the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services. The program allocates more than 1 billion yuan worth of compute to support drug discovery, clinical development and trials, alongside unveiling an AI mobile medical truck and a new AI and digital health research institute.
OpenAI agents claim Navier Stokes Millennium breakthrough
On September 12, 2026, the Guardian reported that mathematicians are alarmed after OpenAI claimed its internal model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem using some 10,000 AI agents at an estimated cost of around 15 million dollars. Researchers worry that industrial scale AI proofs could scoop years of human work, distort credit, and make mathematicians de facto proof checkers for opaque machine generated arguments.
PACMAN AI steers real fusion plasma in milliseconds
On September 6, ScienceDaily reported that Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory tested an AI framework called PACMAN to control fusion plasma. The system combined multiple machine‑learning models to predict and prevent dangerous instabilities hundreds of milliseconds before they formed in a tokamak experiment.
Physical Superintelligence backs AI-for-physics bet
Physical Superintelligence PBC (PSI) formally launched on September 1, 2026 with a $58 million seed round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures to develop an AI-driven physics platform. In parallel, the nonprofit Fermi Explorer Mission announced plans to use PSI’s Get Physics Done system, which autonomously discovered a novel trajectory, for an 80,000‑year low‑cost mission to Alpha Centauri.
Beijing Yizhuang launches AI4Chip push
On August 27, 2026 Beijing’s Economic and Technological Development Zone (Yizhuang) announced the “AI4Chip 20 Measures,” described as China’s first dedicated AI4Chip policy package. The plan aims to cultivate three to five internationally influential AI4Chip ecosystem leaders and create more than ten benchmark applications using AI to accelerate integrated circuit R&D and manufacturing.
NTT Lab Robot Uses AI To Crack New Semiconductor Film
On August 27, 2026, MyNavi’s TECH+ reported that NTT had demonstrated an “interpretable autonomous deposition” system that uses AI and robotics to autonomously optimise thin-film growth conditions and extract human-understandable rules, roughly tripling the experimental cycle speed for semiconductor deposition. Applied to gallium oxide, the system achieved what NTT says is the world’s first single-crystal thin film using a sputtering method, with results published in Nature Communications. ([news.mynavi.jp](https://news.mynavi.jp/techplus/article/20260827-4872315/))
US launches $5B Genesis AI-for-science push
On July 22, 2026, the White House announced more than $5 billion in federal commitments for the Genesis Mission, a national effort to apply AI and advanced computing to scientific discovery. Over 15 U.S. agencies will fund hundreds of projects across health, energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing using shared AI data and compute platforms.
Genesis Mission: $5B+ bet on AI for US science
On July 22, 2026, the White House announced more than $5 billion in federal commitments to expand the Genesis Mission, a national AI-for-science initiative anchored at the Department of Energy. Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI simultaneously unveiled new in‑kind AI and cloud commitments, while NSF, NIH and leading universities detailed funded research campaigns under the program.
CuspAI raises $450M for AI materials foundry
Cambridge-based CuspAI closed a $450 million Series B round at a $2.6 billion valuation, announced on July 20, 2026. The funding, co-led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with participation from Bezos Expeditions and the UK’s Sovereign AI Fund, will expand its generative AI platform for discovering new materials and launch an AI Materials Foundry network.