OpenAI

There are some distinctions between the two systems, but both are what is termed agentic; they operate in the background by calling out to separate tools. (Microsoft has taken a similar approach with its science assistant as well; OpenAI seems to be an exception in that it simply tuned an LLM for biology.) And, while there are differences between them that we’ll highlight, they are both focused on the same general issue: the utter profusion of scientific information. With the ease of online publishing, the number of journals has exploded, and with them the number of papers. It has gotten tough