AI for Science

NMN vs NR: Which NAD+ Precursor Is Actually Better? (2026 Evidence Review) If you’ve been down the longevity rabbit hole for more than five minutes, you’ve heard about NAD+—that critical coenzyme that powers mitochondrial function, DNA repair, and cellular energy production. But here’s the thing: you can’t just take NAD+ directly. Your body needs precursors. […]

The Shift From Autocomplete to Agents: What Changed Two years ago, the state-of-the-art AI coding tool was GitHub Copilot—basically autocomplete on steroids. You’d start typing a function, and it would suggest the rest. It was useful for the obvious cases—writing a for loop, implementing a standard algorithm—but it required you to direct every step. You

The State of Open Source LLMs in 2026: Quick Landscape The open-source LLM ecosystem has gone from fragmented to stratified. You have a few clear tiers now. At the top tier, you have models that compete with the best closed-source options. Llama 4 from Meta, Mistral models, and DeepSeek’s latest release are all in this

Why Drug Discovery Needed AI in the First Place Let me start with the brutal calculus of modern drug discovery. It costs $2.6 billion to bring a single drug to market. The timeline is 10 to 15 years. The odds of any given compound, even after Phase I, ever making it to patients is roughly

How I Actually Evaluate LLMs (The Framework That Actually Matters) When I’m deciding whether to use a model for a specific workload, I’m asking five questions. First: reasoning accuracy on domain-specific tasks. Generic benchmarks are noise. What I care about is: can it read a biotech paper and extract the actual scientific claims? Can it

What Changed in 2024-2025 That Made Agentic AI Real For years, people talked about autonomous agents as a future capability—something that would arrive eventually. Then two things happened in close succession that actually made it viable. First, the LLMs themselves got better at reasoning. By mid-2024, Claude 3, GPT-4 Turbo, and emerging open models showed