Artificial intelligence (AI) has gotten lots of attention, mostly around stock prices, the data center buildout and the wealthy owners of the companies involved. Public pushback has just started. Yet beyond that entire economy of uncertainty, development of another area of AI has been ongoing, mostly offstage from the view of the mainstream media. Scientists are finding ways to adopt AI tools to assist and, in some instances, take over pure science research. We have aggregated our observations of this offstage development into three categories: The Intermingling of AI, which has physical AI (a.k.a. embodied AI) and so-called self-driving factories surfacing together and more frequently; The Metaverse for AI Agents, which is a virtual realm in which AI agents can interact and share experiences; and the Pure Science Uses of AI, which includes breakthroughs in particle physics, chemistry, materials science and mathematics. These changes in pure science and in more advanced areas of applied science suggest that whether the data center buildout happens slowly or rapidly and whether money continues to flow in and out of large AI companies, AI tools, especially in nongenerative AI, will be effectuating scientific breakthroughs at an accelerating pace.