AI for science is a broad class of models, tools, and methods of applying AI models to solve scientific problems. It can include AI models for science, traditional transformers and agentic runtimes used to solve scientific problems, and national programs that fund research in applying AI to science like Genesis.
Models
See AI models for science and foundation models for science.
Companies
FutureHouse
FutureHouse is a non-profit that is developing AI agents to automate research in biology.
Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs is a company co-founded by Liam Fedus that is developing AI models for science. It sounds like their focus is in developing open MOE models at large scale (see LLM training at scale).1