BrowseComp, a novel AI benchmark, evaluates web browsing skills by posing 1,266 complex queries requiring synthesis of information across multiple websites, with a deep research model achieving 51.5% accuracy, surpassing other models' performance on this challenging task.
In a groundbreaking collaboration, Ai2 and Google Cloud have jointly invested $20 million to establish the Cancer AI Alliance, leveraging AI's potential to accelerate cancer research through shared models and secure data analytics powered by Google's cloud infrastructure.
Ex-Google AI Chief Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), backed by $1 billion, is tapping Google Cloud's powerful TPU chips in its quest to develop safe, superintelligent AI systems, marking another AI computing deal between Google and a former employee's startup.
Meta's new AI model Maverick tops the LM Arena benchmark, but the optimized version tested raises transparency concerns as it differs from the publicly available model, making real-world performance predictions challenging due to undisclosed customizations.
A startling discovery reveals that the majority of galaxies spin in the same clockwise direction, defying cosmological expectations and potentially signaling the need to revise our understanding of the universe's expansion or consider the mind-bending notion that our cosmos resides within a rotating black hole.
Africa is witnessing an AI revolution, fueled by governments crafting policies to attract investment and nurture talent, and tech giants like Cassava and Huawei establishing AI hubs, as exemplified by a major summit in Rwanda bringing together over 1,000 stakeholders.
Google-backed AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs secured a staggering $600 million in funding led by Thrive Capital, fueling its AI engine's development and advancing partnerships with pharmaceutical giants like Eli Lilly and Novartis worth billions to revolutionize drug design.
SoftBank Group plans to invest up to $40 billion in OpenAI, with $10 billion upfront and up to $30 billion more by 2026, to support OpenAI's quest for Artificial General Intelligence and ultimately Artificial Super Intelligence for the advancement of humanity.
Prototaxites, enigmatic fossilized 'tree trunks' dating back over 400 million years, may represent an entirely new branch of life, distinct from fungi and other known organisms, challenging our understanding of Earth's ancient biodiversity.
OpenAI's groundbreaking o3 model, combining deep learning and program search, shattered records with a remarkable 75.7% score on the ARC-AGI benchmark, showcasing unprecedented task adaptation capabilities, yet falling short of true AGI as tougher challenges loom.