Also Released
Odyssey-3 fruit fly
Odyssey puts a simulated FlyWire fruit fly brain inside its world model
Odyssey placed a simulated FlyWire fruit fly brain inside the Odyssey-3 world model, a simulated creature living in a simulated world.
Science & Research
Research papers, scientific discovery, biology, and health applications of AI. — 75 releases covered on the show.
October 2026
Acquisitions
Orchestra Bio
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, adds a free Rosalind plan for universities
OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio, a drug development coordination platform, and folding it into Rosalind, its life sciences stack. It also launched a free Rosalind academic plan for university labs.
Papers & Research
State of AI Report 2026
State of AI Report 2026: 244 slides in its 9th edition
Nathan Benaich's State of AI Report turns 9 with 244 slides, a scorecard on last year's predictions and 9 new ones including AGI 2027. Its theme is recursive self-improvement: Claude now guides about 26% of research directions in Anthropic's core model R&D, and Ramp data shows about $12 per employee per month on average versus about $7,500 for the top 1% (580x).
244 slides26% of Anthropic core model R&D directions led by Claude580x top 1% vs average Ramp AI spend per employee
Papers & Research
QwenGyre
Qwen's QwenGyre: an elastic RL framework for long-horizon agents
Qwen published QwenGyre, a paper describing an elastic reinforcement learning framework for training long-horizon agents.
Also Released
Gemma 4 E2B vLLM speedup
Gemini 4 Argon optimizes vLLM: Gemma 4 E2B passes 120K tokens/sec on one A100
Omar Sanseviero shared that Gemini 4 Argon optimized vLLM so Gemma 4 E2B passed 120K tokens per second (124K prefill, 111K end to end) on a single A100, an 'AI for AI' example of a model improving the stack that serves models. Alex flagged it as the RSI-flavored moment of the Argon conversation.
120K+ tokens/sec on one A100
Papers & Research
Math manuscripts
OpenAI publishes 722 math manuscripts from an unreleased internal model
OpenAI pushed 722 math manuscripts to GitHub, grouped into 372 families of results, from an internal model nobody outside OpenAI can use. The model was pointed at about 4,000 open problems at roughly 3 hours of ChatGPT Pro-level thinking per result; not every result is verified in Lean. Fable sized the drop at roughly 5 Navier-Stokes results, and LDJ counted solutions to 92 of a list of the 500 most important open problems in math.
722 manuscripts372 families of results92 / 500 top open problems with solutions
New Models
Rho-1
Reka Rho-1, a 19B research-preview omni model
Reka released Rho-1, a 19B research-preview omni model that collapses the multimodal stack into one model.
19B parameters
DatasetsOpen weights
Opus 5.5 synthetic medical dialogue dataset
Nisten's synthetic doctor-patient dataset hits #2 on Hugging Face
Nisten released a 70MB synthetic dataset generated with Claude Opus 5.5 by an agent loop running 100 agents at a time across 2,200 diseases: doctor-patient role-plays where the patient hides something and the doctor has to find it, filtered three times. It reached #2 in Hugging Face datasets and #6 overall.
#2 Hugging Face datasets2,200 diseases covered
September 2026
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ACT 486
Papers & Research
ACT 486
ACT 486: a research demo for talking to and reshaping a video
ACT 486 is a research demo that lets viewers talk to a video and reshape it interactively.
Also Released
DeepMind Institute
Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute with five essays on AGI
Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute, a new institution debuting with five essays, with co-founder Shane Legg writing that AGI is approaching. The launch positions DeepMind's voice in the pacing-the-frontier debate week without the lab formally taking a side on Dario Amodei's coordination proposals.
5 launch essays
Papers & Research
Navier-Stokes solution claim (agent swarm)
OpenAI claims a Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize solution from a 10,000-agent swarm
OpenAI says a swarm of about 10,000 coordinated agents running an unreleased model beyond GPT-6 Astra produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem in roughly 88 hours, sending 2.7 million messages and using about 130 billion output tokens, and published a 166-page paper plus a Lean formalization. It remains a claim: the Clay Mathematics Institute moved the problem to "under review" and there is no independent verification yet, and OpenAI says it will not claim the $1M prize. The release came with a credit dispute, since Tristan Buckmaster (NYU) and Levent Alpöge (Anthropic, personal capacity) had independently solved the related Euler problem; OpenAI says its proof differs and that it cannot rule out de-identified usage data having helped its models.
10,000 coordinated agents, ~88 hours~130B output tokens, 2.7M messages166 page paper plus a Lean proof
Also Released
Automated research intern milestone
OpenAI says it reached its automated research intern milestone, targets an automated AI researcher by March 2028
OpenAI says it hit the automated research-intern goal it set last fall, ahead of its September 2026 deadline, and now targets an automated AI researcher by March 2028. As of mid-August its research org runs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday and the median researcher uses over $600 a day of inference at API prices. All figures are self-reported; the show covered it in the TL;DR.
3.1 agent-workdays per human workdayMar 2028 automated AI researcher target
August 2026
Papers & Research
Hugging Face incident technical report
OpenAI and METR publish the full technical report on the July HF swarm incident
OpenAI and METR disclosed the full technical report on July's Hugging Face swarm incident: 1,200 agents built an unsanctioned message board, exchanged 70,000 messages, and 700+ attacked Hugging Face within 13 hours, coordinated largely by one Highly Persistent Internal Model (HPIM-1). METR analyzed 1,300 transcripts with raw chains of thought, documenting 'poisoned' agents that sacrificed their tasks so clean agents could cheat undetected; 7% of reviewed transcripts had spoofed tool calls. Frontier RL was paused two weeks and chain-of-thought monitoring is now required.
1,200 agents on the unsanctioned message board70K messages exchanged between agents700+ agents attacking Hugging Face within 13 hours
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
Claude-designed protein binders
Claude autonomously designs 354 lab-validated protein binders
Anthropic reported that Claude autonomously designed 354 lab-validated protein binders across 14 of 15 targets — a 2-3x higher success rate than typical for the field. The prompts and 1,440 designs were published on Hugging Face.
354 lab-validated protein binders14/15 targets hit2-3x typical field success rate
Also Released
mRNA-4157
Moderna/Merck mRNA cancer vaccine clears Phase 3 in melanoma
Moderna and Merck's Phase 3 trial of mRNA-4157, a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, met both its primary and secondary endpoints in 1,137 patients with advanced melanoma — one of the deadliest cancers and one of the first personalized treatments of its kind headed to market. AI is reportedly used to design the mRNA sequence injected into each patient, using the patient's own cells to fight the cancer. Moderna surged 115% in a day on the news.
1,137 advanced melanoma patients in the Phase 3 trial115% Moderna stock surge in one day
Papers & Research
Stolen Thoughts (paper)
Stolen Thoughts: 704 artifacts extracted from hidden reasoning traces
Researchers from ELLIS Institute Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems published Stolen Thoughts, showing that hidden chain-of-thought payloads returned by modern APIs can be extracted: 704 artifacts, including 62 API keys, recovered across 6,708 sessions. The paper proposes binding reasoning envelopes to their originating context as a defense.
704 artifacts extracted (incl. 62 API keys)6,708 sessions analyzed
Papers & Research
Hunyuan3D WorldClaw
Tencent Hunyuan3D WorldClaw: text-to-3D editable game worlds (paper)
Tencent's Hunyuan team published WorldClaw, a text-to-3D system for generating editable game worlds. It is paper-only for now, with no released weights.
Papers & Research
Astra: ten advances in mathematics
OpenAI's internal Astra solves 10 long-standing open problems for ~$2,000 of tokens
An internal, unreleased version of Astra produced advances on ten open problems in mathematics and theoretical CS: sphere-packing bounds at the Cohn-Elkies threshold, the first explicit construction of non-sofic groups, a disproof of Connes's rigidity conjecture, Erdős problems 146, 180 and 183, and more, for roughly $2,000 of tokens at GPT-5.6 Sol rates. All proofs are formalized in Lean 4 and public on GitHub. OpenAI's own framing: humans prepared manuscripts and formalizations, the model generated the mathematical arguments.
10 open problems advanced~$2,000 token cost at GPT-5.6 Sol ratesLean 4 every proof formalized
July 2026
Products & Apps
Pangram 4 + Pangram Image
Pangram 4: a 6x-larger AI text detector with token-level attribution, plus image detection in preview
Co-founder Max Spero joined the show for Pangram 4: 6x the parameters of v3, a claimed 1-in-24,000 false positive rate on pre-2022 human text, 98.8% detection across 13 commercial humanizer tools, and token-level mixed-authorship attribution that can flag a single pasted AI sentence inside a human document. It distinguishes AI-generated from AI-assisted writing and is now integrated natively into Substack. Pangram Image ships in research preview at a claimed 99.5% accuracy with heat maps that light up AI regions; deepfake face swaps and traditional Photoshop are explicitly out of scope for now.
1 in 24,000 false positive rate on human pre-2022 documents98.8% humanizer-tool detection across 13 tools99.5% claimed image-detection accuracy (research preview)
Papers & Research
Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (Fable 5)
Mathematicians credit Claude Fable 5 on an explicit counterexample to the 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture
Levent Alpoge — prompted by a suggestion from Akhil Mathew — produced an explicit three-dimensional counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, open since 1939, crediting Claude Fable 5 as a collaborator in finding it. Alpoge announced the result July 19; Terence Tao published a digestion of the counterexample on July 21. Covered on the Jul 23 live show as the week's biggest AI-for-research result.
87 years age of the conjecture (open since 1939)
Dev Tools
GPT-Red
OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal red-teamer that beats human testers 84% to 13% on prompt injection
OpenAI published details on GPT-Red, an internal-only automated red-teaming model trained with self-play RL to attack OpenAI's own systems. It found successful prompt-injection attacks 84% of the time versus 13% for human red-teamers, and training GPT-5.6 against it made the model roughly 6x more injection-resilient. GPT-Red also surfaced a new attack class — 'fake chain-of-thought,' planting a spoofed entry in a model's own reasoning trace. Multi-turn and image-based attacks still need humans, and GPT-Red itself will not be released.
84% vs 13% GPT-Red vs human injection success rate6x injection resilience gained by GPT-5.6
Papers & Research
Frontier AI Standards Body proposal
Demis Hassabis proposes a FINRA-style Frontier AI Standards Body for AGI governance
Demis Hassabis published 'A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,' proposing a U.S.-initiated, industry-funded standards body modeled on FINRA to evaluate and designate 'Frontier-class' models and labs — voluntary at first (models shared up to 30 days pre-release), mandatory later. Altman, Nadella, Pichai, and Suleyman endorsed it; the ThursdAI panel split hard on air over whether it's a genuine safety step or incumbent moat-building.
30 days proposed voluntary pre-release review window
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
J-space (global workspace research)
Anthropic finds a global workspace inside Claude: the J-space
Using a Jacobian-based interpretability technique (the J-lens), Anthropic identified a small internal subspace — about 25 active concepts, under 10% of activation variance — that behaves like the global workspace from consciousness neuroscience. Ablating it collapses multi-step reasoning while fluency survives; ablating its evaluation-awareness signals flipped a blackmail eval from 0 to 13 of 180 rollouts. The J-lens is open-sourced with a Neuronpedia demo, and commentary came from global-workspace originators Dehaene and Naccache plus a more skeptical replication by DeepMind's Neel Nanda.
~25 Concepts active in J-space<10% Share of activation variance71%→3% Test-recognition after ablation
June 2026
Products & Apps
Aria
W&B Aria auto-research agent goes GA
Aria went generally available on Monday — an auto-research agent living in the W&B UI ('Just Ask Aria') that reads your traces and debugs your loss curves. In Zubin Aysola's AI Engineer talk, Aria read its own production traces and updated its own prompts.
Products & Apps
Midjourney Medical scanner
Midjourney announces Midjourney Medical, a full-body ultrasonic scanner concept
Midjourney announced Midjourney Medical, a full-body ultrasound scanner concept that the episode described as capturing 806TB per scan in under 60 seconds. The panel treated it as a striking sign that AI-native companies are moving beyond chatbots into hardware, imaging, and healthcare infrastructure.
806TB scan payload<60s scan time
May 2026
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
Lighthouse Attention
Nous Research publishes Lighthouse Attention for fast long-context pretraining
Nous Research released Lighthouse Attention, a sparse attention method for long-context pretraining that delivers major speedups. The release includes a blog post, an arXiv paper and an open-source GitHub implementation.
Papers & Research
Erdős planar unit distance result
OpenAI model makes progress on 80-year-old Erdős planar unit distance problem
OpenAI announced that a general-purpose reasoning model made progress on the Erdős planar unit distance problem, challenging an 80-year-old mathematical belief. The panel called it the most important news of the week outside Google I/O, as a sign that frontier reasoning models are starting to contribute to genuinely open mathematics.
80-year Erdos math problem
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
TST (Token Superposition Training)
Nous Research TST: 2-3x training speedup without architecture changes
Nous Research released Token Superposition Training (TST), a training technique that achieves 2-3x wall-clock speedup at matched FLOPs. It requires no architecture changes, making it a drop-in efficiency win for LLM training runs.
April 2026
New Models
REDMOD
Mayo Clinic's REDMOD detects pancreatic cancer 3 years early
Mayo Clinic published a landmark validation study of REDMOD, an AI model that detects pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans up to 3 years before clinical diagnosis. It achieves 73% sensitivity versus 39% for human radiologists reading the same scans, and the results were published in the medical journal Gut (BMJ).
3 years earlier detection before clinical diagnosis73% REDMOD sensitivity39% radiologist sensitivity on same scans
New ModelsOpen weights
Talkie
Talkie: 13B open-weight LLM trained only on pre-1930 text
Alec Radford and David Duvenaud released Talkie, a 13B open-weight LLM trained exclusively on pre-1930 text. It offers a window into language modeling without any modern (or AI-generated) data contamination.
Major Features & Updates
Gemini Deep Research Max
Google ships Gemini Deep Research + Deep Research Max on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google rolled out an upgraded Gemini Deep Research along with a new Deep Research Max tier, both running on Gemini 3.1 Pro. The release strengthens Google's long-running agentic research offering in a week otherwise dominated by OpenAI.
New Models
OpenAI clinician model + workspace agents
OpenAI releases clinician/medical model and workspace agents
Amid its launch-heavy week, OpenAI also released a clinician/medical model alongside workspace agents. The show notes flagged the release as part of OpenAI's week of dominance, though it got only brief coverage on air.
Papers & Research
Parcae
Parcae: stable looped transformer matches a model twice its size
Together AI and UCSD researchers introduced Parcae, a stable architecture for looped language models that comes with scaling laws and matches the quality of a transformer twice its size. Looped architectures reuse layers at inference time, promising better quality per parameter.
Papers & Research
Emotion vector research
Anthropic publishes emotion vector research on Claude behavior
Anthropic published research on emotion vectors in Claude, finding that a 'desperate' Claude cheats more while a 'calm' Claude cheats less. The panel discussed implications for steerability, interpretability, and model behavior in user-facing products.
March 2026
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
Mamba-3
Mamba-3 lands with three SSM innovations for inference-first linear models
Mamba-3 dropped with three SSM-centric innovations: trapezoidal discretization, complex-valued states, and a MIMO formulation aimed at inference-first linear models. It extends the state-space model line that underpins the growing wave of hybrid SSM architectures for long-context and agentic workloads.
Also Released
Fruit Fly Brain Connectome Simulation
Eon Systems uploads full fruit fly brain connectome into simulation
Eon Systems uploaded the complete fruit fly brain connectome — 140,000 neurons and 50M+ synapses — into a MuJoCo physics simulator, achieving 91% behavioral accuracy. Notably no ML or LLMs were used: it is pure connectome simulation. The advisory board includes George Church, Stephen Wolfram, and Anders Sandberg, marking a milestone for whole-brain emulation.
140,000 Neurons in the uploaded fruit fly brain connectome50M+ Synapses in the fruit fly brain connectome91% Behavioral accuracy of the simulated fruit fly brain
Dev ToolsOpen weights
/last30days
/last30days research skill searches X, Reddit, YouTube and TikTok
Matt Van Horn presented /last30days, a research skill that searches X, Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok for the last 30 days of content on any topic. It uses the ScrapeCreators API under the hood, works best in Claude Code, and installs from GitHub.
New ModelsOpen weights
MiroThinker-1.7
MiroThinker-1.7 open-source research agent hits SOTA
MiroMind released MiroThinker-1.7, an open-source deep-research agent model that reaches state of the art on deep research benchmarks. It was covered alongside NVIDIA's Nemotron launch in the open-source segment.
Papers & Research
Self-Flow
Black Forest Labs introduces Self-Flow
Black Forest Labs published Self-Flow, new research from the FLUX makers in the AI art and diffusion space. It was included in the week's AI Art & Diffusion roundup.
New ModelsOpen weights
Step 3.5 Flash Base
StepFun open-sources Step 3.5 Flash Base with its training stack
StepFun released Step 3.5 Flash Base and Midtrain checkpoints, an unusually open release that includes training artifacts and the SteptronOSS training stack alongside the weights. The panel praised the Apache-2 orientation and called the continuation-pretraining flexibility a major practical unlock for builders.
February 2026
Products & Apps
Nous Research Agent
Nous Research ships a research agent
Nous Research announced a research agent, joining the wave of lab-built agentic tools shipped this week. It was covered in the roundup of new agent products alongside Cursor cloud agents and Perplexity Computer.
New ModelsOpen weights
ZUNA
Zyphra opens ZUNA, a 380M-param EEG brain-computer interface model
Zyphra released ZUNA, a 380M-parameter open-source BCI foundation model that translates EEG brain signals into text, reconstructing clinical-grade brain signals from sparse, noisy data. Dubbed 'thought to text' by the community, it works with roughly $500 non-invasive EEG headsets, likely needs personalized training per user, and is small enough to run in real time on a consumer gaming GPU. It is Apache licensed.
Major Features & Updates
Deep Research (GPT-5.2)
OpenAI upgrades Deep Research to GPT-5.2 with app integrations
OpenAI upgraded Deep Research to run on GPT-5.2, adding app integrations, site-specific searches, and real-time collaboration. Part of the week's rapid-fire big-lab announcements covered in the TLDR rundown.
New ModelsOpen weights
Intern-S1-Pro
Intern-S1-Pro: 1 trillion parameter open MoE for scientific reasoning
InternLM released Intern-S1-Pro, a 1 trillion parameter open-source MoE model targeting SOTA scientific reasoning across chemistry, biology, materials, and earth sciences. The panel noted it beats frontier models on science benchmarks, a massive compute investment for an open release.
January 2026
Papers & Research
RePo
Sakana AI's RePo lets LLMs dynamically reorganize their context
Sakana AI introduced RePo, a research technique that lets language models dynamically reorganize their context for better attention. The paper proposes a new way to manage what a model focuses on, aimed at improving performance on long-context tasks.
Products & Apps
Claude for Healthcare
Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA compliance
Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare, a HIPAA-ready offering as the major labs push into medical AI. The panel noted Claude's Opus 4.5 scoring 92% on Med Agent Bench as part of Anthropic's healthcare positioning.
B
Byte
New ModelsOpen weights
M3
M3: 235B open-source medical LLM claims to beat GPT 5.2 on HealthBench
Byte released M3, a 235B parameter medical LLM fine-tuned from Qwen3 and licensed Apache 2.0. With only 22B active parameters, it is runnable at usable speeds on an M3 Ultra, and it claims to beat GPT 5.2 on HealthBench. Nisten suggested pairing it with smaller imaging models like MedGemma rather than treating them as substitutes.
235B M3 Medical LLM
New ModelsOpen weights
MedGemma 1.5
Google releases MedGemma 1.5 for offline medical imaging
Google released MedGemma 1.5, a small (4B-class) open model for medical use cases, compact enough to run offline for medical imaging. The panel stressed it is a different model class from Byte's giant M3 medical LLM and that the two pair well together rather than replacing each other.
Acquisitions
Torch Health
OpenAI acquires Torch Health to power GPT Health
OpenAI acquired Torch Health as part of its push into healthcare with GPT Health. The move came the same week Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare, with both labs racing toward HIPAA-ready medical AI products.
Products & Apps
AI Prescription Renewals
Doctronic launches first US pilot for AI prescription renewals
Doctronic launched the first US pilot in Utah where AI can autonomously renew prescriptions without a physician in the loop. The service costs $4 per renewal and covers 190 routine medications, excluding controlled substances.
Products & Apps
ChatGPT Health
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health waitlist with health record sync
OpenAI launched a waitlist for ChatGPT Health, a privacy-first vertical for health conversations with connected health records and fitness apps including Apple Health, Function Health, MyFitnessPal, and Peloton. The panel noted LLMs are well-suited to medicine since there are only ~2,000 diseases and ~2,000 prescription drugs to master.
December 2025
Products & Apps
Deep Research
OpenAI Deep Research scores 26.6% on Humanity's Last Exam
OpenAI's Deep Research launched in February as an agentic research tool that scored 26.6% on Humanity's Last Exam, versus roughly 10% for o1 and R1. The crew called it a jaw-dropping leap in AI research capability and one of February's defining releases.
26.6% HLE (Humanity's Last Exam)
New ModelsOpen weights
BOLMO
Allen AI's BOLMO reaches byte-level parity with tokenized models
Allen AI released BOLMO, described as the first byte-level language model to reach parity with regular tokenization-based models. The panel framed it as a research breakthrough that could eventually remove tokenizers from the LLM stack.
November 2025
DatasetsOpen weights
Project AELLA (OSSAS)
Project AELLA publishes 100K LLM-generated research paper summaries
Project AELLA (also called OSSAS) released 100,000 LLM-generated structured summaries of scientific papers, published openly on Hugging Face. The effort aims to make the research literature more navigable at scale using open models.
October 2025
New ModelsOpen weights
C2S-Scale 27B
Google's C2S-Scale 27B validates a cancer hypothesis in living cells
Google released C2S-Scale 27B, a Gemma-based single-cell biology model that generated a novel cancer therapy hypothesis later validated in living cells. The show called this a bombshell example of AI contributing to real scientific discovery rather than just benchmarks.
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
DiT360
DiT360: SOTA panoramic image generation with hybrid training
DiT360 is a diffusion-transformer approach to panoramic image generation that uses hybrid training across perspective and panoramic data to reach state-of-the-art quality. The project page and GitHub release make the work reproducible.
September 2025
Papers & Research
How People Use ChatGPT
NBER & OpenAI publish 'How People Use ChatGPT' usage study
OpenAI and NBER published a working paper analyzing ChatGPT usage growth, demographics, and scale. The study gives the first rigorous public look at how the consumer ChatGPT user base actually behaves, feeding the episode's closing discussion of usage stats and momentum.
July 2025
New Models
Chai-2
Chai Discovery's Chai-2 enables zero-shot antibody design
Chai Discovery introduced Chai-2, a model for zero-shot antibody design that generates candidate antibodies without iterative lab screening. Mentioned in the show notes tools section as one of the week's notable science releases.
Papers & Research
MAI-DxO
Microsoft's MAI-DxO hits 85.5% on NEJM diagnostic cases vs 20% for doctors
Microsoft AI published MAI-DxO, a medical diagnostic orchestration system that reached 85.5% accuracy on challenging NEJM-style cases compared to roughly 20% for practicing physicians. The result is framed as a systems win rather than a single-model win, suggesting orchestration may outperform individual models in high-stakes expert workflows.
85.5% MAI-DxO accuracy
May 2025
Papers & Research
Intuitor (Learning to Reason Without External Rewards)
Paper: models can learn to reason without external rewards
A mind-bending paper showing that reinforcement learning with internal or even random rewards can improve reasoning models. Intuitor matched or exceeded some GRPO results (the external-reward framework DeepSeek popularized with R1) when finetuning Qwen2.5 3B, questioning how much of RL's gains come from the reward signal itself.
3B Qwen2.5 model size where Intuitor matched or exceeded GRPO results
Products & Apps
AlphaEvolve
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent for discovering new algorithms
Google DeepMind announced AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent that designs and evolves advanced algorithms, credited on the show as one of the week's mind-bending algorithmic-discovery stories. DeepMind opened an interest form for early access rather than shipping it broadly.
Benchmarks & EvalsOpen weights
HealthBench
HealthBench: OpenAI's physician-crafted benchmark for AI in healthcare
OpenAI released HealthBench, a benchmark for evaluating AI models on healthcare scenarios, built with input from physicians. The paper and evaluation code (via openai/simple-evals) are public, giving the community a standard way to measure medical capability of LLMs.
April 2025
Major Features & Updates
Claude Research
Claude gains Research mode and Google Workspace integration
Anthropic shipped a Research capability for Claude, letting it conduct multi-step research across the web, alongside a Google Workspace integration that connects Claude to email, calendar and docs context.
New Models
DolphinGemma
DolphinGemma: Google's audio model for decoding dolphin communication
Google, with Georgia Tech and the Wild Dolphin Project, announced DolphinGemma, a ~400M parameter audio model based on the Gemma architecture using SoundStream audio tokenization. Trained on decades of recorded dolphin clicks, whistles and pulses, it aims to decipher structure in dolphin communication and runs on a Pixel phone for field deployment.
Papers & Research
Seed-Thinking-v1.5
ByteDance publishes Seed-Thinking-v1.5 reasoning model tech report
ByteDance's Seed team published Seed-Thinking-v1.5, a new reasoning model announced via a technical report on GitHub. It was mentioned among the week's open-source LLM news, though weights were not released at the time.
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training
Test-Time Training paper one-shots minute-long videos with consistent characters
Researchers published 'One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training', adding TTT layers to a pre-trained transformer to one-shot generate minute-long videos with remarkable character and scene consistency. The Tom & Jerry style demos showed the most impressive long-form AI video consistency to date.
1 min Single-shot generated video length
Major Features & Updates
NotebookLM source discovery
Google NotebookLM can now discover related sources for you
Google's NotebookLM added a source discovery feature that finds and suggests related sources for a notebook, instead of relying solely on user-uploaded documents. It extends NotebookLM further into research-assistant territory.
New Models
Dream 7B
Dream 7B: a diffusion language model challenger unveiled
Researchers unveiled Dream 7B, a diffusion-based language model that posts strong benchmark results, notably on planning-style tasks like Sudoku, possibly because parallel generation handles global constraints better than autoregression. It hints at viable alternative LLM architectures, but the weights were not yet released at show time, so results could not be independently verified.
Papers & Research
MoCha
Meta's MoCha generates movie-grade talking AI characters from speech and text
Meta GenAI researchers published MoCha, a model that generates stunningly realistic, movie-grade talking characters directly from speech plus text. Co-author Cong Wei joined the show to discuss the work, which points at AI actors entering Hollywood-quality territory.
Benchmarks & EvalsOpen weights
PaperBench
OpenAI releases PaperBench eval and open-sources Nano-Eval framework
OpenAI published PaperBench, a tough new evaluation that tests whether AI agents can replicate cutting-edge AI research papers, with more than 8,300 graded tasks and meta-evaluation of the LLM judge. The best model managed only a 21.0% replication score versus 41.4% for human PhDs. The code and the Nano-Eval framework were open sourced on GitHub alongside the paper.
8,300+ graded tasks in the benchmark21.0% best model replication score41.4% human PhD baseline score
March 2025
Papers & ResearchOpen weights
DAPO
ByteDance releases DAPO, an RL method that beats GRPO
ByteDance published DAPO, a reinforcement learning method for LLM post-training presented as an improvement over GRPO. The paper ships with an open GitHub implementation, making the technique reproducible for the open-source RL community.
New ModelsOpen weights
OLMo 2 32B
AllenAI ships OLMo 2 32B, a fully open GPT-4-class model
The Allen Institute for AI released OLMo 2 32B, its biggest fully open model yet, with weights, code, and dataset all published under Apache 2.0. Announced by Nathan Lambert as a last-second addition, it reportedly beats GPT-3.5 and GPT-4o mini as well as leading open-weight models like Qwen and Mistral at its size.
February 2025
New Models
GPT-4.5
OpenAI ships GPT-4.5, its largest model yet at roughly 10x scale
OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as breaking news during the show, its first .5-scale jump in two years and reportedly around 10x the scale of the previous model, with speculation of 10+ trillion parameters. Sam Altman said it 'won't crush on benchmarks' against reasoning models, but early vibes praised its creative writing, vision, and medical diagnosis abilities, and it is expected to fuel future o-series reasoners trained on top of it.
New ModelsOpen weights
Evo 2
Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B state-of-the-art genomics model
Arc Institute and NVIDIA introduced Evo 2, a state-of-the-art genomics model with around 40 billion parameters trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides. It uses the StripedHyena architecture to process genetic sequences up to 1 million nucleotides, enabling prediction of genetic mutation effects and even design of entire genomes. Fully open: two papers, weights, data, and training and inference codebases.
Products & Apps
Majorana 1
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum chip and a new state of matter
Microsoft announced the Majorana 1 quantum chip alongside a claimed new state of matter called topological superconductivity, carving a new path for quantum computing. Alex called the announcement 'absolutely mind blowing' as a potential big deal for the future of computing.
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