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RESEARCH, WITH THE CONTEXT

What became possible.

Mathematics, biology, computing and more. Sources checked through Oct 7, 2026.

THE LEAPSCOPE LADDER

From claim to real.

Most AI news stops at the announcement. We follow each breakthrough and move it up the ladder only when public evidence supports it.

  1. ClaimAnnounced or reported by the team behind it. Not yet checked by others.
  2. VerifiedChecked by outside experts, official judges or by results anyone can recheck.
  3. UsableYou can try it: public code, a model, a tool or a dataset is available.
  4. In useWidely used in real work beyond the team that built it.

21 curated research milestones. View 2 model access updates. Includes announcements and proposed results, with evidence status on every entry. This is not an exhaustive catalogue of AI research.

21 milestones
Mathematics

Quasi Riemann result

A claimed advance on zeta function zeros

Claim under review
OpenAI
Physics

Two dimensional quantum area law

A proposed bound on quantum entanglement

Claim under review
OpenAI
Mathematics

OpenAI mathematics collection

722 manuscripts. A new scale of AI mathematics.

Mixed verification
OpenAI
Biology

Claude’s ART enzyme system discovery

Claude spots a hidden pattern in DNA: the ART enzyme system

Early research; lab experiments
Anthropic
Biology

AlphaGenome Atlas

A map of predicted DNA variant effects

Research resource
Google
Computing

AlphaEvolve in practical systems

Algorithm discovery reaches more applications

Developer impact report
Google
Mathematics

OpenAI First Proof submissions

Proof attempts on research mathematics

Proof attempts
OpenAI
Physics

GPT-5.2 and gluon amplitudes

A new formula in particle theory

Preprint; checked by authors
OpenAI
Science

GPT-5 science case studies

AI contributing to research with experts

Case studies
OpenAI
Mathematics

Gemini Deep Think at IMO

Gold medal standard in mathematics

Official competition grading
Google
Biology

AlphaGenome

Predicting the effects of DNA changes

Research preview
Google
Computing

AlphaEvolve

Algorithms that improve through automated tests

Research and deployment report
Google
Biology

AI co-scientist

Generating hypotheses for scientists to test

Research demonstration
Google
Mathematics

AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2

Silver medal standard on IMO problems

Research demonstration
Google
Biology

AlphaFold 3

Predicting how biological molecules fit together

Published research
Google
Mathematics

AlphaGeometry

Solving Olympiad geometry

Published research
Google
Mathematics

FunSearch

New mathematical constructions from code

Published research
Google
Materials

GNoME materials research

Searching for stable new materials

Published research
Google
Climate

GraphCast

Fast global weather forecasts

Published research
Google
Computing

AlphaTensor

AI finds new matrix multiplication algorithms

Published research
Google
Biology

AlphaFold 2

Predicting protein shapes

External assessment
Google
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