We mentioned this here before, but general-purpose LLMs are surprisingly good at specialized tasks. A new research paper shows this in the case of protein sequencing.
We demonstrate large language models (LLMs), despite being trained on massive texts, are secretly protein sequence optimizers. […] In this paper, we demonstrate LLMs themselves can already optimize protein fitness on-the-fly without further fine-tuning.
Outside of this specialized domain and the impact therein, this points toward a further weakening of the moats that specialized AI companies might hope to have.
