FRANKFURT, Germany - October 17, 2024 - At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Wiley (NYSE: WLY), one of the world's largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, today announced the launch of Wiley AI Partnerships: A Co-Innovation Program. This initiative aims to develop new AI applications, assistants, and agents in partnership with innovative companies, to empower researchers and practitioners and help drive the pace, efficiency and accuracy of scientific discovery.
A new Wiley survey revealed that 69% of researchers want to keep up with or be ahead of the curve in AI adoption in their field. At the same time, they require better tools to streamline their research and are looking for guidance and training about how to use AI responsibly and effectively. This new program is intended to help solve these challenges in collaboration with partner companies and researchers with the goal of improving the efficiency and caliber of research worldwide.
"Researchers and practitioners are seeking more than generic AI tools - they need relevant applications that enhance and support their research endeavors. This new partnership program is designed to meet these needs by inviting collaboration with start-ups and scale-ups to deliver specialized AI solutions," said Josh Jarrett, Senior Vice President and General Manager for AI Growth at Wiley. "Our goal is to accelerate AI tool development to unlock new discoveries, empower researchers to uncover hypotheses, run analyses at scale, simulate experiments before wet lab investment, connect findings to existing research, and enable global collaboration."
Wiley AI Partnerships: A Co-Innovation Program combines Wiley's high-quality scientific content, global academic and institutional partnerships, market research, and brand strength with cutting-edge AI applications from partner companies. The program kicks off this month with its first partner, Potato, an AI research assistant powered by peer-reviewed literature that enables high-quality science. Wiley and Potato will collaborate to advance the application and reproducibility of science with tools that deliver well-defined research protocols.
Wiley is extending an invitation to additional partners to join the program and shape the future of AI in research. Preference will be given to partners targeting Wiley's strongest disciplines of life sciences/pharmaceuticals, health science, food science, engineering, chemistry, materials, and veterinary science. Initial AI applications or tools may include:
- Research assistants to help conduct experimentation and analyses
- Information extraction & analysis applications
- Research search & discovery applications
- Analytical decision support tools
- Science communication, education and content creation tools
