AUTHOR=Churchill R. Michael TITLE=AI foundation models for experimental fusion tasks JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2024 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2024.1531334 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2024.1531334 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=Artificial Intelligence (AI) foundation models, while successful in various domains of language, speech, and vision, have not been adopted in production for fusion energy experiments. This brief paper presents how AI foundation models can be used for fusion energy diagnostics, enabling, for example, visual automated logbooks to provide greater insights into chains of plasma events in a discharge, in time for between-shot analysis.