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John Jumper, who led AlphaFold and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic. The interesting question isn't who won the talent war — it's what his choice says about where the hard problems in biology AI go next, and why a safety-focused lab might actually be the right place to work on them.
Read more →DeepMind's AI Co-Mathematician is a hierarchical multi-agent workbench for mathematics research. Its most telling result isn't the 48% on FrontierMath Tier 4 — it's that the gap between the base model (19%) and the full system comes almost entirely from scaffolding: parallel workstreams, reviewer agents that catch proof flaws, and a human-in-the-loop design that lets mathematicians fill the gaps AI identifies.
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