AlphaEvolve: AI’s Highlight of the Year

Yesterday, Google released AlphaEvolve, a fascinating new system that has, amongst many other discoveries, improved a solution to a well-known problem that has resisted humans for 60 years.

AlphaEvolve is special, an ‘it’ moment that could soon be compared to AlphaGo’s ‘Move 37’ or the discovery of the Transformer architecture that underpins modern AI.

Moreover, it’s also an AI system that forces us to accept what seems undeniable: using AI for discovery could be its most significant contribution and one that, ironically, may not need AI to be intelligent at all.

Wait, what?

Let’s answer that and more today.

First principles analysis and AI in a world filled with false experts using incomprehensible jargon don’t usually go together. But here, they do.

AIs for Scientific Discovery

Few people in the AI industry hold more weight than Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind’s CEO. A Nobel laureate in Chemistry thanks to AlphaFold, an AI that produces folded…