The chatbot era was cute. But this week, AI started doing actual science.
Mount Sinai won a million dollars for Biomni-AD—an AI co-scientist that turns months of Alzheimer’s research into minutes. You ask a question in plain English. It gives you code, analysis, figures. It connects genetics, proteins, clinical data. It finds drug targets faster. And they’re giving it away for free to researchers everywhere .
Shanghai built something similar. Dasheng is an AI agent that doesn’t just assist—it autonomously breaks down research tasks and runs them. Materials science. Drug design. Climate modeling. They’ve got 400 scientific models under the hood and 22 petabytes of data. Named their tools after Chinese mythology. Suiren finds better batteries. Nvwa designs RNA drugs .
And Google quietly released Gemini 2.5—a “thinking model” that reasons instead of just predicting.
Here’s what ties these together: the real AI revolution isn’t happening in chat windows. It’s happening in labs, where AI is becoming a colleague. Not a replacement. A partner that works at silicon speed while humans ask bigger questions.
That’s the story worth paying attention to.
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