We're all elated that U.S. Department of Energy's new nonprofit foundation is taking shape to accelerate deployment of new clean energy tech.

Now what?

What if I told you that we've been building a menu of ambitious use cases for this agile new entity:

fas.org/publication/fe…

Progress on auto-formalization:
arxiv.org/abs/2403.18120
(see research.google/pubs/a-promisi…)

Warms my heart.

Have heard lots of glowing early reports of the Martin O'Malley tenure.

Jim was also a huge advocate for U.S. science funding, and relentlessly made that case to policymakers.

Awesome metascience research opportunity to partner with the NIH on measuring the impact of their scientific portfolio and informing the program design of their funding streams.

Great to see “10 years later” data on the CSforAll push. This was a major priority for President Obama and our team (NSF support for a new CS AP course; SOTU call for action; all-hands-on-deck bipartisan effort by Governors and wide assortment of groups). brookings.edu/articles/how-c…

This is an important next step. Having a DOE Foundation will allow the agency to be much more nimble.

Very cool work from my friends at DeepScienceVentures!

I often think about mentorship being the oldest and necessarily least scalable form of education. But I see work like this and think that one of the impact paths of agentic workflows is into scalable mentorship

Congrats to the Mati Carbon- Cost Effective Permanent CO2 removal team for making the list. Enhanced rock weathering can remove carbon and put cash in the hands of smallholder farmers by boosting crop yields.

Happy AlphaFold Day to all who celebrate.

Would be curious what people think could be the “next AlphaFold,” where a well-curated dataset and benchmark could drive improvements in prediction in a key area in science.

Few federal research agencies have dedicated programs to fund the creation of research tools, research software, or datasets. Huge opportunity, especially on potential of AI in science.

So grateful for all this team has done and for all that it will do! Kumar Garg Thomas Kalil Jas Sidhu Ronit Kanwar Parth Ahya and team are tremendous forces for good in the world.

ChemCrow is out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! ChemCrow is an agent that uses chem tools and a cloud-based robotic lab for open-ended chem tasks. It’s been a journey to get to publication and I’d like to share some history about it. It started back in 2022. 1/8

Great work Aleš Flídr and Convergent Research. More philanthropists should support work to dramatically improve our response to future pandemics - like making ubiquitous disinfection of the air in buildings a reality.

Take a bow Ilan Gur