When Will AI Make Scientific Discoveries?
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today’s AI Daily Brief asks when artificial intelligence will begin making real scientific discoveries. We look at Periodic Labs, which just raised more than $300 million to build AI scientists and autonomous labs for physics and chemistry, and Thinking Machines, which is creating tools to democratize custom model training. These efforts highlight a shift from consumer apps toward AI as a scientific instrument, arriving alongside early reports that models like GPT-5 are already generating small but novel breakthroughs. In headlines, the U.S. government blasts China’s DeepSeek models, Apple pivots from Vision Pro to smart glasses, Amazon refreshes Alexa devices with custom AI chips, and Meta plans to target ads based on chatbot interactions.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, when will AI start making novel scientific discoveries? |
| 0:05.3 | Before that in the headlines, the U.S. government says actually DeepSeek stinks. |
| 0:10.0 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
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| 0:48.3 | But with that, let's dive in. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines edition, |
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| 0:55.9 | We kick off today with a new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 1:00.2 | that finds deep seek lacking in both performance and security. |
| 1:05.1 | Announcing the report, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik wrote, |
| 1:07.9 | today, thanks to President Trump's AI Action Plan, |
| 1:10.7 | the Commerce Department |
| 1:11.5 | and NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, have released a groundbreaking evaluation |
| 1:16.2 | of American versus adversary AI. |
| 1:18.9 | Result, American AI models dominate. |
| 1:22.0 | Our systems outperform deep seek across nearly every benchmark. |
| 1:25.1 | The report is clear. |
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