On the Latent Space podcast, Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido discuss the limits of AI scaling and the open questions in protein folding. They explore what it would take to build AI that truly understands biology.
After OpenAI announced it had solved several hundred math problems, Fields medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin described a dismantling of his discipline. He is particularly worried about what AI means for young mathematicians.
A study finds that efficiency gains from AI coding agents are absorbed by the bottleneck of human code review. More code is written, but not more finished software.
More than three dozen mathematicians told The Verge they were stunned by the volume of mathematical results OpenAI released this week. They expect it will take years to assess them fully.
Google has released Android Bench 2.0, an update to its framework for testing AI models and agents on Android development work. It adds long-horizon tasks, agent-based evaluation and continuous scoring to better measure complex, multi-step jobs.
InstaDeep, founded in Tunis in 2014, was bought by BioNTech in 2023 for up to £562 million, the largest acquisition of an African startup. It has since become the group’s AI engine, with the Kyber supercomputer and genomic models such as Nucleotide Transformer.