OpenAI Partners With Los Alamos to Test AI’s Value for Lab Work
- Study will look at risks, rewards of using AI for research
- AI startup has made several recent health and biotech deals
OpenAI is working with Los Alamos to evaluate how its latest AI model, GPT-4o, can be used to support and troubleshoot lab tasks.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergOpenAI is teaming up with Los Alamos National Laboratory, best known for developing the world’s first atomic bomb, to study the opportunities and risks for using artificial intelligence systems to assist with scientific research.
The Microsoft Corp.-backed startup said Wednesday that it is working with Los Alamos to evaluate how its latest AI model, GPT-4o, can be used to support and troubleshoot lab tasks — a partnership that OpenAI is billing as a first of its kind. Among other things, OpenAI said it would study how GPT-4o’s unreleased voice assistant technology can help scientists with their research.