If AI Wants the Public's Trust, It Should Cure Something
Public fear of AI keeps rising, and much of it is earned. The way back is not another math milestone. It is AI that visibly improves health and science.
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Science
7 K-Dense articles on Science — research automation, benchmarks, and case studies from the K-Dense team.
Introducing K-Bench 01: Nine Frontier Models, 178 Real Scientific Tasks, and a Lot of Confident Wrong Answers
K-Bench 01 is our internal benchmark built from 178 real scientific tasks. Nine frontier models ran them end to end; only one clears the acceptability bar.
11 min readAI Scientists Need Lab Escape Rooms, Not More Exams
The next AI scientist benchmark should be a lab escape room: a fresh hidden world, limited probes, real evidence, and no place for science theater to hide.
13 min readReproduction, Not Generation, Is AI's Killer App for Science
AI is flooding science with claims no one can check. The quieter story: agents now reproduce most published findings — and that is the bigger deal.
8 min readThe Week Science Models Became Real
Fable 5 and GPT-Rosalind show frontier AI moving into scientific workflows. The next bottleneck is not intelligence, but evidence.
9 min readThe Model Is No Longer the Bottleneck
Anthropic showed a general model can rival ChemDraw at NMR. The real story for scientists: the bottleneck has moved from the model to the workflow around it.
6 min readK-Dense Web vs Scientific Agent Skills: Why We Built Both (And Which One You Should Use)
K-Dense Web vs Scientific Agent Skills: our open-source skills give researchers AI tools; K-Dense Web adds more skills, agents, cloud compute, and zero setup.
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