AI, DeepMind and International Mathematical Olympiad
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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence group has been growing under Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of the DeepMind research lab Google acquired years ago.
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Cryptopolitan on MSNMicrosoft enters AI talent wars, poaching 20 AI staff from Google’s DeepMind research divisionMicrosoft has hired more than 20 artificial intelligence pros from Google’s DeepMind unit in the past six months, intensifying Silicon Valley’s escalating
Late last year, Dominic King and Christopher Kelly were poached by Suleyman from DeepMind to run a new AI health unit that has already developed an AI medical system that it says is four times more successful than human doctors at diagnosing complex ailments.
Chain-of-thought monitorability could improve generative AI safety by assessing how models come to their conclusions and spotting the "intent to misbehave.”
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Interesting Engineering on MSNGoogle and OpenAI models outscore top teens in world’s toughest math showdownThe IMO 2025 is regarded as one of the toughest competitions for high schoolers worldwide to prove their mettle with numbers and equations. The gold medal scoring by the AI models marks a significant breakthrough for the AI technology, and a marker of how it’s redefining its limits daily.
CASP, the protein structure prediction contest that launched DeepMind’s Alphafold to international fame and a Nobel Prize, has secured temporary funding to continue operations. The organization’s current funding — from the National Institutes of Health — is set to run out in early August.
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IEEE Spectrum on MSNDeepMind’s Quest for Self-Improving Table Tennis AgentsThe authors express their deepest appreciation to the Google DeepMind Robotics team and in particular David B. D’Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Alex Bewley and Krista Reymann for their invaluable contributions to the development and refinement of this work.
Varun Mohan, Windsurf co-founder, faced criticism for joining Google DeepMind. This happened after a $3 billion OpenAI acquisition fell through. The m