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
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.
Claude Science Makes AI a Lab Co‑Researcher
Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that unifies scientific databases, tools and compute into a single environment for researchers. The product, announced June 30 and covered widely on July 1, 2026, runs on existing Claude models such as Opus 4.8 and includes features like multi-agent workflows, citation checking and grants of up to $30,000 for selected projects.([anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-science-ai-workbench?id=Claude4&utm_source=openai))
Claude helps prove decade‑old jamming conjecture
On July 1, 2026 Phys.org reported that physicists Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi used Anthropic’s Claude model as a collaborator to help prove a 10‑year‑old conjecture in jamming theory. Claude reproduced prior numerical work and suggested a key idea that the researchers refined into a full mathematical proof.
AutoLabs Agents Drive 5–10x Faster Robot Science
On June 25, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory unveiled AutoLabs, an agentic AI system that translates scientists’ experimental goals into detailed instructions for an autonomous lab robot. PNNL says AutoLabs can boost experimental throughput by 5–10x and has been open-sourced alongside a Scientific Reports paper.
AI Finds New Antibiotics for Drug‑Resistant Gonorrhoea
On June 18, 2026, Open Access Government reported that researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, MIT and the Broad Institute used a deep learning workflow to screen ~6 million compounds and identify new candidates effective against multidrug‑resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The work, detailed in Science Translational Medicine and a Wyss Institute release from June 17, shows AI‑discovered compounds targeting previously underused bacterial pathways with promising in vitro and in vivo results. ([openaccessgovernment.org](https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/machine-learning-identifies-new-compounds-to-target-antibiotic-resistant-gonorrhoea/210692/))
Bezos’ Prometheus: $41B bet on ‘General Engineer’ AI
In a June 11, 2026 Financial Times interview republished by Chile’s Diario Financiero, Jeff Bezos said AI will usher in multiple “golden ages” rather than mass job destruction. He outlined his vision for Prometheus, a new AI lab valued at about $41 billion that aims to apply AI to manufacturing and engineering.([df.cl](https://www.df.cl/internacional/ft/jeff-bezos-asegura-que-la-ia-traera-edades-doradas-y-no-una-destruccion))
AI designs first universal coronavirus vaccine
A Cambridge-led team has completed the first human trial of a ‘universal’ coronavirus vaccine whose key antigen was designed entirely by artificial intelligence, with early results published June 5, 2026. Coverage on June 5–6 reports the DNA vaccine was safe in 39 volunteers and generated modest but promising immune responses against the Sarbeco coronavirus family. ([sciencedaily.com](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260605023357.htm?utm_source=openai))