A few months ago, the best LLM scored 5% on the USA Math Olympiad test. Models have been rapidly improving. Today, Google Gemini 2.5 scored 49%, which is better than 75% of the people who took the test (roughly the top 250 students in the USA).
@erikbryn
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LLMs Surpass Benchmarks: Converting AI Capabilities Into Business Value
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LLMs are blowing through benchmarks faster and faster. Next up, converting capabilities into business value.
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Government cuts to life-saving research receive public support
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I'm sorry to read this and all the other cuts. Supporting work like yours is one the government activities with the highest return. We should be doing *more*, not less. I'm incredibly grateful that you've devoted your life to this kind of life-saving research. Hang in there!
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Anthropic Economic Index Launch with Alex Tamkin
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I love what @AnthropicAI has done to create its Economic Index. No one understands it better than @AlexTamkin
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New Research Podcast Justified Posteriors Explores AI Papers
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Check out this amazing new podcast by two of my amazing former postdocs: @AndreyFradkin and @SBenzell The format is that they state their priors, read a paper, discuss it on the pod, and then update their priors. It's called "Justified Posteriors" Link in next post…
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AI Models Creating Original Research as Capabilities Advance
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Interesting hypothesis that we may soon see an explosion of original work from AI models as they approach the capabilities of the best human researchers and writers.
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AI Rapidly Improving Across Benchmarks: 11 Key Trends
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AI is getting better at a bunch of benchmarks very, very fast; 11 more trends summarized here: https://
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David Autor discusses technology and jobs impact
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I can't wait to see my friend and old MIT colleague @davidautor next Monday. His research about technology and jobs is always insightful. Please join us!
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Bridging AI capabilities gap in enterprise business value delivery
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Here's a terrific article by @Steve_Rosenbush in the @WSJ quoting me and others about how to address the gap between AI's amazing capabilities and the frustration many businesses have in delivering value.
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Recognition for Innovation and Tax Policy Research Work
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Congrats to @S_Stantcheva for being recognized for her terrific work on innovation and tax policy: