Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from Autodesk, a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Sea, and others to build its world models for robotics, scientific discovery, and more
World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a new round of funding to pursue a novel approach to AI development.
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from Autodesk, a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Sea, and others to build its world models for robotics, scientific discovery, and more
World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a new round of funding to pursue a novel approach to AI development.
Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C
The Beijing-based AI-for-Science firm said the Series C round would fund hiring and R&D, as interest grows in using AI to speed up scientific discovery
Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery
Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg :
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of OpenAI for Science, a new group with the goal of building an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”
and accelerate research all over the world. Bluesky: @saltcreekbrews : I wasn't clear enough with my last post but this is clearly just a play to steal taxpayer dollars from NSF, NIH, DoE, DoD, etc. ...
A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation by analyzing the code using OpenAI's o3 API
Now finding a Linux kernel-level zero day is as simple as knowing how to prompt. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h... @davidcrespo : key detail in this very good post about finding a novel vuln with LLMs: e...
Q&A with Christopher Bishop on leading Microsoft's AI for Science lab, why scientific discovery will be AI's single most important application, and more
The AI for Science lab director discusses the technology's capability to accelerate time-consuming research
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed
This is all well-and-good...provided that this is actually the process through which science works. And it's not. — www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t... X: Kenneth Stanley / @kenneth0stanley : Important...
How AI hallucinations are transforming scientific discovery, with some scientists calling the term “hallucination” misleading and likening it to exploration
Artificial intelligence often gets criticized because it makes up information that appears to be factual, known as hallucinations.
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development
Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance …