Ai2 puts the spotlight back on long-term research and open models, according to its interim director Peter Clark. In a recent conversation, Clark walks through why the institute keeps betting on open science, which technical projects are pushing the frontier, and how that research connects to real-world applications in science, the environment, and robotics.

Why should you care? Because these choices shape not just cutting-edge papers, but tools you or teams you work with might actually use.