Models and tools
Model and tool releases that change what a researcher can do.
OpenRouter or AWS Bedrock: where a researcher should buy model access
OpenRouter is the quick way to try many models with one key. Bedrock is the one to use when the data is licensed or the university already buys from AWS.
Academic research is far behind the AI frontier, in every field we checked
A paper about a model is out of date before it clears review. In mathematics, the newest results come from a model no academic can run.
OpenAI releases machine-produced math results with Lean proofs and compute figures
The results come from an internal model. OpenAI says the average result used compute equal to roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking.
Scientists report saving nearly 7 hours a week with AI, and the bottleneck moves to verification
A study of 15 million Gemini interactions, over 2,600 specialized models and a survey of over 600 scientists maps how AI is used in research.
The one public review of WRDS's Ask AI chatbot finds a lookup tool with a six-question limit
Librarians in Singapore tested the beta and found it useful for locating variables, unreliable on first try and capped at six questions a session.