Global Race Shifts Toward AI Applications in Scientific Discovery

How Shenzhen can win the ‘AI for science’ race

The next big competition in artificial intelligence is over science. The question is shifting from who has the largest model to who can use AI to shorten the discovery cycle: forming a hypothesis, running simulations, designing an experiment, operating equipment, collecting results and learning from them. The United States made that shift explicit. The Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission aims to bring together 17 national laboratories into an integrated discovery platform to double the...

By Shaoshan Liu