gapnium

Tier-2 coefficient · weight 0.15

gapnium.discovery

The rate at which long-standing problems fall.

Now0.3510
12 months+0.0730
Since 2020+0.261

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What it measures

Genuine new knowledge produced with AI as a principal contributor: solved open problems in mathematics, structural biology, materials, algorithms and physics. Weighted by how long the problem stood open and how independently the AI contributed.

Evidence the sorting agent looks for

  • Open problems resolved (Erdős, combinatorics, conjectures)
  • Scientific grand challenges (protein folding, materials)
  • Peer-reviewed results with AI as a principal contributor
  • Prizes awarded for AI-driven science

What 1.0 would mean

AI routinely resolves decades-old problems across fields faster than the human research community can absorb the results.

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Events that moved gapnium.discovery

  1. OpenAI model reports ten more mathematical advances

    OpenAI says an unreleased model made ten new mathematical advances, including solutions to three more Erdős problems.

    Discovery +0.018 Recursion +0.004
    Quanta Magazine · How AI Tore Through a Mathematical Community

  2. AI disproves Erdős's 1946 unit distance conjecture

    OpenAI announces an internal reasoning model produced a counterexample to a famous 80-year-old Erdős conjecture, checked by mathematicians including Tim Gowers.

    Discovery +0.040 Cognition +0.015
    AIhub · An AI solution to an 80-year-old problem has shocked mathematicians Quanta Magazine · How AI Tore Through a Mathematical Community

  3. Erdős problems start falling to AI

    Hobbyists using GPT-5.2 Pro solve Erdős Problem #728, and a DeepMind-led team uses Gemini to resolve four more and locate old solutions to nine.

    Discovery +0.015
    Quanta Magazine · How AI Tore Through a Mathematical Community

  4. Gemini Deep Think wins IMO gold

    An advanced Gemini Deep Think model solves 5 of 6 IMO problems in natural language within the time limit, officially certified gold.

    Cognition +0.025 Discovery +0.006
    Google DeepMind · Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad

  5. AlphaEvolve improves algorithms — and Google's own AI stack

    A Gemini-powered coding agent discovers a faster 4×4 complex matrix multiplication and recovers ~0.7% of Google's worldwide compute.

    Recursion +0.025 Discovery +0.015 Compute +0.005
    Google DeepMind · AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

  6. Google's AI co-scientist generates validated hypotheses

    A multi-agent Gemini system proposes research hypotheses, including drug-repurposing candidates confirmed in lab experiments.

    Discovery +0.010 Recursion +0.005
    Google Research · Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist

  7. Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold and protein design

    Demis Hassabis and John Jumper share the Chemistry Nobel with David Baker for computational protein structure prediction and design.

    Discovery +0.010
    The Nobel Prize · The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 — Press release

  8. AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reach IMO silver

    DeepMind's systems solve 4 of 6 problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, scoring at silver-medal level.

    Cognition +0.020 Discovery +0.008
    Google DeepMind · AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems

  9. AlphaFold 3 models all of life's molecules

    AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA and ligands.

    Discovery +0.014
    Google Blog · AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules

  10. AlphaGeometry solves olympiad geometry

    AlphaGeometry solves 25 of 30 IMO geometry problems, close to an average gold medallist.

    Cognition +0.012 Discovery +0.004
    Google DeepMind · AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

  11. FunSearch makes new discoveries in mathematics

    An LLM-driven evolutionary search finds new constructions for the cap set problem, a first genuine LLM contribution to an open maths problem.

    Discovery +0.012 Recursion +0.006
    Google DeepMind · FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models

  12. GNoME predicts 2.2 million new crystals

    DeepMind's GNoME identifies 380,000 stable materials, an order-of-magnitude expansion of known stable inorganic crystals.

    Discovery +0.012
    Google DeepMind · Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

  13. AlphaTensor discovers faster matrix multiplication

    An RL agent finds matrix-multiplication algorithms that beat human-designed ones, including improving a 50-year-old record for 4×4 matrices in a finite field.

    Discovery +0.012 Recursion +0.010
    Google DeepMind · Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor

  14. AlphaFold DB expands to 200 million structures

    Predicted structures for nearly every catalogued protein known to science are released freely.

    Discovery +0.020
    Google DeepMind · AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe

  15. AlphaFold published in Nature, code released

    The AlphaFold 2 method is peer-reviewed and open-sourced, and its structure database launches days later.

    Discovery +0.015
    Nature · Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

  16. AlphaFold 2 solves protein structure prediction at CASP14

    DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 predicts protein structures with accuracy competitive with experiment, addressing a 50-year-old grand challenge.

    Discovery +0.050 Cognition +0.005
    Google DeepMind · AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology