The race for AI adoption is reshaping the R&D workforce, with AI Engineer (#1) and AI consultant (#2) securing top spots in LinkedIn’s 2025 Jobs on the Rise report. Meanwhile, sustainability specialist (#9) and semiconductor-oriented roles such as instrumentation & control engineer (#24) reflect continued growth in both “pure tech” and physical-world sectors. Although AI…
New model sharpens antibody predictions, aiding faster vaccine and biologics development
Researchers have made significant strides in predicting a protein’s structure from its sequence using large language models. However, this method hasn’t been as effective for antibodies, primarily due to their hypervariability. This makes it challenging to identify treatments for SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases. MIT researchers have developed a computational technique that more accurately predicts…
AI is redefining performance standards in Big Tech
As tech giants use AI to automate traditional coding tasks, companies are simultaneously cutting lower-performing roles while competing for AI talent—creating a two-track job market where AI expertise increasingly defines career prospects. During a recent interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dished on the company’s plans for its continued push into…
Infographics: Emerging AI technologies like GenAI, LLMs, and federated learning still showed triple-digit CAGRs in 2024
2024 may potentially be the year that genAI hype peaked. But the momentum around the subject continues to be intense. In a query of Elsevier’s Scopus database, generative AI had a CAGR of 313.3% from 2019 when there were four publications on the subject. As of November 27, there were 4,821 papers featuring the subject…
OpenAI unveils ‘o1,’ a new AI model family that ‘thinks’ before responding
After a wave of media attention about rumored OpenAI models codenamed Strawberry and Orion, OpenAI has announced the launch of OpenAI o1, a new series of AI models designed to handle complex problems requiring advanced reasoning. According to an announcement from the company, the model family represents a significant leap forward from previous models in…