Trends

AI for science gains public funding and open infrastructure

AI in scientific discovery · Jul 24 – Sep 11

Organizations

AnthropicCuspAIGoogle DeepMindMonarch InitiativeNVIDIAU.S. Department of Energy

Updates

  1. Sep 11

    NVIDIA's fully open Nemotron 3 Ultra pipeline scored 30/42 at IMO 2026, the gold threshold, without a formal prover, and Google DeepMind's free AlphaGenome Atlas scored all ~9B human single-nucleotide variants, finding 22% more non-coding UK Biobank associations.

    NVIDIA's open recipe for IMO goldGoogle DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas

  2. Jul 24New

    The White House committed more than $5B across 15 agencies to the Genesis Mission as DOE selected 278 AI-for-science projects, CuspAI raised $450M at $2.6B for materials discovery, and Anthropic offered up to $50,000 in Claude credits per rare-disease project.

    White House commits $5B+ to the Genesis MissionCuspAI raises $450M at $2.6BAnthropic funds rare-disease research with Claude credits

Predictions

  1. Jan 2027

    AI for the physical and scientific world becomes a dominant funding and policy theme, with model-agnostic scientific platforms built on general foundation models. Jul 24

  2. Mar 2027

    Verifiable, artifact-producing contribution becomes a standard axis of model comparison, and open recipes and public resources broaden who can reproduce it. Sep 11