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How Google’s AlphaEvolve is driving new math breakthroughs inside Google and beyond.
Google’s AlphaEvolve discovers math breakthroughs
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The Rundown: Google just debuted AlphaEvolve, a coding agent that harnesses Gemini and evolutionary strategies to craft algorithms for scientific and computational challenges — driving efficiency inside Google and solving historic math problems.
The details:
- Mixed Gemini models: Uses Flash for idea generation and Pro for analysis, evolving code iteratively after human evaluation.
- Historic discoveries: Improved Strassen’s matrix-multiplication algorithm for the first time since 1969.
- Efficiency gains: Optimized data-center scheduling, AI-training pipelines, and even chip design.
- Open benchmarks: On 50+ math problems, matched SOTA in 75% and discovered new or improved solutions in another 20%.