China is trying to use AI to accelerate science R&D in areas like fusion, materials science, and biology.
"An April 2025 article in China Energy News reposted by the People’s Daily stated that researchers at CNNC’s Southwest Institute of Physics in Chengdu utilized AI-enhanced simulations to reduce the preparation time per plasma shot at the institute’s Circulator-3 (aka Huanliu-3) experimental tokamak from several days to just half an hour."