Did you miss these 2 AI stories? A *Real* LLM-crafted Breakthrough + Continual Learning Blocked?
While compute-spend focuses on cash over cleverness, it can seem like the AI IQ plateau will last forever. But here’s a breakthrough for science, led by an LLM. And not even the latest or greatest one! I’ll go over CS2-Scale, then the Definition of AGI paper, a key continual learning quote, and Sora 2 answering Math questions…
https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained
AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained
Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:55 – C2S
04:48 – OpenAI not too far behind (Simple, Codex)
06:37 – A Definition of AGI?
11:10 – OpenAI Researcher on Continual Learning Problems
13:02 – Sora 2 can answer math qs
C2S Release Notes: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648850v2.full.pdf
AGI definition: https://www.agidefinition.ai/paper.pdf
Jerry Tworek Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqWIvvv3SnQ
https://simple-bench.com/
DeepThink Record: https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1976340039178305924
Sora 2 for Q&A: https://x.com/epochairesearch/status/1974172794012459296
Hell in a Cell: https://x.com/boneGPT/status/1978614451223003567
GPT-5 Breakthrough?: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1979417877590774063
Quantum: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1981013746698100811
Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/
Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/
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