I'm not sure what you'd call a "pioneering scientific advancement", but there is an increasing amount of examples showing that LLMs can be used for research (wi

I'm not sure what you'd call a "pioneering scientific advancement", but there is an increasing amount of examples showing that LLMs can be used for research (with agents, particularly). A survey about this was published a few months ago: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.895.pdf https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.895.pdf