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Microsoft wants to tap AI to accelerate scientific discovery
Microsoft Discovery, which Microsoft announced at Build 2025, is a new platform that taps agentic AI to 'transform the [scientific] discovery process.'
Earlier this year, Google unveiled an “ AI co-scientist,” which the tech giant said could help scientists with creating hypotheses and research plans. Anthropic and its chief rival, OpenAI, along with outfits like FutureHouse and Lila Sciences, have asserted that AI tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery, particularly in medicine. AI might come in handy in areas where broad exploration is needed, like narrowing down a vast list of possibilities, but it’s less clear whether it can do the kind of out-of-the-box problem-solving that leads to bona fide breakthroughs.
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