From coding to hardware, LLMs are speeding up research progress in artificial intelligence. It could be the most important trend in AI today.

Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, a powerful new tool designed to tackle complex coding challenges by harnessing the strengths of its Gemini 2.0 large language models (LLMs).

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve is an AI “coding agent” that autonomously discovers and optimizes algorithms by coupling large language models (LLMs) with an evolutionary search process ...

To test AlphaEvolve’s breadth, DeepMind applied the system to over 50 open problems in mathematical analysis, geometry, combinatorics and number theory. In roughly 75% of cases, AlphaEvolve ...