Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

With continued investment and growing buzz from the industry, the AI hype is expected to extend through 2025 and beyond.

A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare.

This new approach, based on natural selection, dramatically improves the reliability of large language models for practical tasks like trip planning. Here's how it works.

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Isomorphic was spun out of Google’s AI research arm Google DeepMind in 2021, but remains a wholly owned subsidiary of its parent company, Alphabet. The start-up’s potential has attracted big pharmaceutical partners, which are keen to lower expenses and boost efficiency of the costly drug development process.

Google DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs expects testing on its first AI-designed drugs to begin this year, as tech startups race to turn algorithmic magic into actual treatments. “We’ll hopefully have

A demo car ad created with Veo 2 from Google DeepMind is so realistic that it's hard to spot the amazing locations, intriguing people and fast cars are all AI.

With "Mind Evolution" LLMs can use search and genetic algorithms to generate and combine different solutions and find the optimal one.

The drop has been sparked by the sudden rise of DeepSeek, which has jumped to the top of the download charts on Apple’s App Store in the UK, US and China. | ITV National News

Hedge fund manager and entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng built an AI model on a tight budget despite a US attempt to halt China’s high-tech ambitions.