# AI in Science and Technical Frontiers

AI is accelerating science, mathematics, and materials discovery. This sub-article expands [Section 6 of Recent Topics](../recent.md).

## Biology and Medicine
- **AlphaFold** and successors revolutionized protein folding.
- Models assist in drug discovery, genomics, and clinical reasoning.

## Mathematics and Logic
- Models assist in theorem proving and conjecture generation.

## Materials and Chemistry
- Generative models propose new compounds, catalysts, and battery materials.

## Synthetic Data and Self-Improvement
- Models generate training data (self-training, distillation loops).
- Small distilled models (DeepSeek, Llama 3.2) make frontier quality runnable on laptops.

## Why It Matters
AI is becoming a research instrument that accelerates discovery across disciplines.

## Sources
- Jumper, J. et al. (2021). *AlphaFold.*
- DeepSeek. *Technical reports.*

*Back to [Recent Topics](../recent.md).*