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Google's AI Co-Scientist: A Multi-Agent System to Accelerate Hypothesis Generation
In February 2025, Google unveiled the Gemini 2.0-based AI Co-Scientist, using multi-agent collaboration to help scientists generate and iterate new hypotheses.
The Paris AI Action Summit: US and UK Refuse to Sign as Global AI Governance Splits
In February 2025, at the France-India summit, the U.S. and U.K. declined to sign the inclusive-AI declaration, with Vance blasting Europe's 'excessive regulation.'
A Researcher for Everyone: How Deep Research Became 2025's Standard AI Feature
From Gemini (Dec 2024) to OpenAI (Feb 2025) to the whole industry, autonomous research agents went from novelty to table stakes within a year.
DeepSeek R1 Rocks Wall Street: Nvidia Sheds a Record ~$589 Billion in One Day
DeepSeek open-sourced its R1 reasoning model on January 20, 2025; a week later it triggered an AI stock rout, with Nvidia plunging 17% in a day.
The Starting Gun of the Agent Era: OpenAI Fires Off Operator and Deep Research
In January-February 2025, OpenAI launched Operator, a browser-driving agent, and Deep Research, an autonomous research agent — agents became products.
The Stargate Project: OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle Pledge Up to $500B for AI Infrastructure
On January 21, 2025, OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle announced Stargate at the White House — up to $500 billion over four years for U.S. AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek V3 Released: A 671B MoE Model That Shook the Industry on Cost
DeepSeek released V3 on December 26, 2024: 671B total / 37B active parameters, trained for a fraction of closed-model budgets, open and commercial-ready.
Gemini 2.0 Launches: Google Declares the Agentic Era, Debuts Project Mariner
Google released Gemini 2.0 on December 11, 2024 — built for agents — and demoed Project Mariner, an agent that drives your browser.
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Released: Can Stability AI Hold Its Open-Source Ground?
Stability AI released the SD 3.5 family in October 2024, but with FLUX rising fast, its dominance in open image generation is under challenge.
AI's Nobel Moment: Hinton Wins Physics, the AlphaFold Team Wins Chemistry
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, and Chemistry to AlphaFold's Hassabis and Jumper — AI swept two of science's top honors in one year.
California Vetoes SB 1047: Newsom Halts the AI Safety Bill That Split Silicon Valley
On September 29, 2024, Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047 — America's most aggressive frontier AI safety bill — pausing a fight that had torn Silicon Valley apart.
Three Mile Island Restarts: Microsoft's 20-Year Power Deal Feeds AI Data Centers
On September 20, 2024, Microsoft signed a 20-year PPA with Constellation to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 — AI demand pulling retired nuclear back onto the grid.
OpenAI o1 Launches: 'Think Before Answering' Opens a New Reasoning-Model Paradigm
On September 12, 2024, OpenAI released o1 (codenamed Strawberry), the first model trained via RL to think at length before answering — redefining reasoning.
AlphaFold 3 Lands in Nature: Structure Prediction for All of Life's Molecules
In May 2024, DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs published AlphaFold 3 in Nature — the first to predict protein complexes with DNA, RNA and ligands.
Adobe Releases Firefly Image 3: A New Benchmark for Commercially Safe AI Imagery
Adobe unveiled Firefly Image 3 at MAX London on April 23, 2024, with big gains in photorealism, integrated into Photoshop on day one.