Topic: Research
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DeepSeek’s R1 passes peer review in Nature
A frontier model’s training method clears formal scientific review.
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AI models reach IMO gold-medal standard
General reasoning models solve olympiad problems without task-specific tooling.
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DeepSeek releases R1 with open weights
A Chinese lab ships frontier reasoning trained by reinforcement learning on verifiable rewards.
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AlphaFold’s creators win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Baker, Hassabis and Jumper are recognised for protein structure work.
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Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics
Neural network foundations are recognised by science’s highest honour.
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AlphaFold 3 extends beyond proteins
Structure prediction covers DNA, RNA and drug-like molecules.
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Chinchilla proves compute-optimal scaling
DeepMind shows leading models are badly undertrained for their size.
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AlphaFold 2 wins CASP14
DeepMind predicts protein structures at roughly experimental accuracy.
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AlphaGo beats world number one Ke Jie
DeepMind’s system wins the Wuzhen match against the top-ranked human Go player.
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DQN learns Atari from pixels
DeepMind trains one network to play many games from raw screen images and score alone.
