Evolving AI: the age of small data, LLMs and privacy-preserving computations

Jan Baumbach is the Director of the Computational Systems Biology Institute (CoSy.Bio) at the University of Hamburg (Germany). He’s also a professor at the University of Hamburg, a part-time professor at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark) and a principal investigator at the German Synchrotron, DESY, and the Leibniz Science Campus InterACt (both Hamburg, Germany). In this interview from the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)’s European conference and exhibition (20–22 May 2025; Hamburg, Germany), Jan discusses why we’re now in the age of small data, how large language models (LLMs) could transform data analysis for biologists and...