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AI companies want to become frontier scientific researchers

SIR DEMIS HASSABIS says he started Google DeepMind to create “the ultimate tool for science”. In the years since, DeepMind’s research has graced the cover of Nature nine times. At the beginning that was for breakthroughs in AI itself, but its more recent successes have come from applying AI to other areas of scientific endeavour. Its protein-folding model AlphaFold, for example, earned Sir Demis a share of a Nobel prize in 2024.

DeepMind’s peers are catching up. This autumn, OpenAI reshaped the terrain of mathematics, first by solving a landmark Millennium Prize problem and then by publishing solutions to more than 300 open questions in a single day (see story on AI in maths). Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s boss, declared in September that the company had discovered a potential successor to CRISPR, a gene-editing technique, using its Claude model, promising that AI-powered biology is on an “exponential trend”.

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Sources: Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last public round last year

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Sony resurrects the 1979 Walkman headphones, now with USB-C

Russian data centers ordered to save 10% of capacity for state use following new Putin orders