Stanford HAI Report: AI's involvement in scientific research is rapidly increasing, evolving from an assisting tool towards scientific discovery.

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ME News, April 23 (UTC+8), according to the science chapter of the "2026 AI Index Report" released by Stanford HAI, AI's participation and influence in scientific research continued to rapidly increase in 2025. Data shows that the number of AI-related publications in the natural sciences has reached approximately 80,150, a 26% increase from 2024, and the share of AI research output in overall scientific research has risen from less than 1% in 2010 to 5.8%–8.8%. The report points out that frontier models have demonstrated potential exceeding the average human level on specific tasks (such as ChemBench), but still face significant challenges in complex scientific practices (such as ReplicationBench, UnivEarth, PaperArena, and BixBench), with gaps compared to human experts. Multiple scientific fields are systematically building AI infrastructure. For example, astronomy has released the first foundation model AION-1, the first visual benchmark AstroVisBench, and a 100TB training dataset; in meteorology, Aardvark Weather has for the first time used a single machine learning system to end-to-end replace traditional numerical weather prediction processes, and FourCastNet 3 generates 60-day global forecasts in less than 4 minutes, 8 to 60 times faster than previous methods. The report also mentions that although the first fully AI-generated paper accepted by a peer-reviewed workshop (produced by Sakana's AI Scientist-v2) has appeared, the list of experimentally verified AI scientific discoveries remains very short. Unlike the general AI field, most scientific AI models originate from academic and government institutions, many of which are international collaborations. (Source: InFoQ)
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