Tag: science
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OpenAI Just Opened Its Best Models to Scientists
OpenAI just made a pretty specific promise. Give 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most capable AI models, and get out of the way while they use it. The program starts small, 10,000 researchers this summer, then grows toward that 100,000 mark by 2027. Qualifying faculty and postdocs get GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, the company’s…
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The Nobel Prize Winner for AlphaFold Just Left Google for Claude
John Jumper-who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 for AlphaFold, the AI system that solved protein structure prediction-is leaving Google DeepMind after nine years to join Anthropic. This matters more than the usual “top talent moves” headline. Jumper did not just move to a company that pays well. He moved to a company…
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Anthropic Just Opened Its Own Drug Lab
Anthropic is not just building AI models anymore. It’s building a drug discovery lab. They launched Claude Science, a workbench that connects Claude Opus to more than 60 preconfigured tools across genomics, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics. One platform. Everything a researcher needs to move from idea to experiment to result in a single session.…
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Anthropic’s Science Push Is Turning Into a Drug Bet
Anthropic just moved Claude out of the chat box and closer to the lab bench. Claude Science is built as a workbench for researchers, with tools for papers, data, and the kind of back-and-forth that actually happens in science work. The bigger step is the drug angle. Anthropic says it wants to help develop drugs,…
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The White House Just Enlisted AI for Science Discovery
There is a new national mission, and AI is at the center of it. The White House launched the Genesis Initiative, and Google DeepMind is backing it. The goal is to turn AI loose on the hardest scientific problems: biology, chemistry, materials science, energy, climate. They built two tools to start with. AlphaEvolve is a…
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Google Just Dropped the Model That Beats Everyone on Science
Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro with Deep Think on June 22, and the benchmarks are not close anymore. They are not even in the same building. Here are the numbers: 89.8 percent on MMLU-Pro. 82.4 percent on GPQA Diamond. GPQA is the science one: the test where you need actual knowledge, not pattern-matching. Gemini is…
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Google’s AI Just Quietly Fixed Something Nobody Else Could
AlphaEvolve is not new. Google DeepMind showed it off a while ago. But the new part is what it is doing now, out in the world, where it actually matters. This coding agent-this thing that writes and rewrites algorithms-started as a research project. Now it is in production. It is making real saves. Start with…
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Anthropic Just Built the Lab Assistant Researchers Have Been Waiting For
Claude Science is not a new model. It is a workbench. Anthropic announced it today, and here is what it means: scientists can finally stop juggling tabs. The setup is straightforward. You bring data from your experiments, your databases, your literature-wherever it lives. Claude Science pulls it together in one place. It runs on Claude…
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GPT-5 Just Cracked a 3-Year Immune Cell Mystery
Derya Unutmaz, an immunologist at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, had been stuck on the same question for three years: how does glucose actually change the way T cells develop and fight cancer? That’s not a small question. T cells are the immune system’s precision weapons. Getting glucose metabolism wrong breaks the entire picture…