As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
… The same survey showed more than 6 percent of respondents paying for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. …
There are some distinctions between the two systems, but both are what is termed agentic; they operate in the background by calling out to separate tools. (Microsoft has taken a similar approach with its science assistant as well; OpenAI seems to be an exception in that it simply tuned an LLM for biology.) And, while there are differences between them that we’ll highlight, they are both focused on the same general issue: the utter profusion of scientific information. With the ease of online publishing, the number of journals has exploded, and with them the number of papers. It has gotten tough
Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks… The same survey showed more than 6 percent of respondents paying for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. …
… Swapping out Crow for OpenAI’s o4-mini took the rate of hallucinated references from zero percent all the way up to 45 percent. …
… Still, the company has already raised nearly $2 billion from Silicon Valley investors and companies , including Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, Amazon, and OpenAI. …