There's a serious issue around naming here, I'll agree.
I assume "AI" in contemporary articles, especially as it pertains to investments, means "Generative AI, especially or exclusively LLMs."
In this case it means research, as it pertains to universities.
This is about "AI for science" and I don't think LLMs are the biggest deal there. Alphafold is maybe the best AI science so far and it isn't a language model.