AI for science

7 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 25, 2026 by Max Welling · across every show →

Everything said about AI for science, oldest first

Feb 25, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Welling: Billion-Dollar Funding Rounds Signal Exploding AI for Science Bubble
“It's not just emerging, it's exploding, I would say. That's the better term, because I know you go from investments into like in the hundreds of millions, now in the billions. So there's now actually a startup by Jeff Bezos that, you know, is that 6.2 billion …”
Max Welling Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 7:19 🔬Max Welling: Materials Underlie Everything
Feb 25, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Welling: The Bitter Lesson of AI Scaling Will Overtake Materials Science
“The same bitter lessons or lessons that you can draw in LLM space are eventually going to be true in this space as well, I think.”
Max Welling Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 31:38 🔬Max Welling: Materials Underlie Everything
Feb 25, 2026 bullish
Insight
Welling: AI Enables Searching the Space of All Possible Molecules
“Now we can treat this as a search engine. Like we search the internet, we now search the space of all possible molecules, not just the ones that people have made, or that they're in the universe, but all of them.”
Max Welling Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 13:36 🔬Max Welling: Materials Underlie Everything
Feb 25, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Welling: Protein Folding and ML Force Fields Drove AI for Science Boom
“I think there's two big examples, you know, protein folding is a big one, and the other one is machine learning force fields, or something called machine learning inter-atomic potentials. Both of them have been actually very successful.”
Max Welling Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 8:05 🔬Max Welling: Materials Underlie Everything
Jun 17, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krause: Large Alloy Manufacturers Are Bearish on AI for Science Hype
“We do talk to a lot of companies in our field who make materials at scale in, in the alloy space who are thinking about this, and they look at it from a different lens. You know, they're not all hype on AI for science, and actually I'd say a lot of them are ki…”
Joseph Krause Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 52:57 🔬 The Limits of AI in Science - Why We Need Self-Driving Labs — Joseph Krause, Radical AI
Jul 21, 2026
Insight
Haneke: Lab Experimentation Differentiates AI for Science From B2B SaaS
“One of the themes that has run through the podcast is how the lab and experimentation and the real world have probably the biggest impact and have the most relevance to whether something is AI for science or something like B to B SAS.”
RJ Haneke Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 0:53 🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model (Bo Wang & Ci Chu)
Aug 26, 2026 negative
Opinion
Regulating AI for science like large language models creates serious problems
“A lot of regulatory frameworks equate AI with language models and Yes, language models can, you know, manipulate people, can have all these kinds of harmful impacts that we should think about controlling, but AI for science is different. So I think this one si…”
Anima Anandkumar Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 1:20:19 🔬 Why Transformers Hit a Wall the Moment Physics Shows Up — Anima Anandkumar, Caltech
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