Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

980: AI Making Theoretical Physics Breakthroughs

📅 April 03, 2026 ⏱️ 9m

A team of theoretical physicists from Harvard, Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Vanderbilt used OpenAI’s models not just as a tool, but as a collaborator, cracking a problem in particle physics that had stymied them for months. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn walks through how