Weil: 2026 for AI in science will mirror 2025 software engineering
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Kevin Weil, VP of OpenAI for Science, discusses how quickly frontier AI reasoning models will become mandatory tools across scientific disciplines throughout 2026.
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“I think, 2026 for ai and science is going to look a lot like what 2025 looked like for soft ai and software engineering yeah where if you go back to the beginning of 2025 if you were using ai heavily to write your code you were sort of an early adopter and like kind of worked and but it wasn't like certainly not everybody was doing it and then you fast forward 12 months and at the end of 2025 if you are not using ai to write a lot of your code you're probably falling behind I think we're going to see that same kind of progression in AI and science”
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