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- 2026-10-16Claude, checked by an automatic evaluator, beats the best published quantum circuits on six of eight standard tasks and widens the trade-off on the eighthLevel 2 · Computed
- 2026-10-08AutoDrude fits a polarizable force field straight from DFT, and catches the lithium transport in a polymer electrolyte that charge scaling missesLevel 3 · Checked against existing evidence
- 2026-02-05Eleven mathematicians release ten unpublished research questions to test whether AI can prove what they have provedLevel 2 · Computed
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Andi GuPhD student, Quantum Science and Engineering Claude, checked by an automatic evaluator, beats the best published quantum circuits on six of eight standard tasks and widens the trade-off on the eighth
Jeffrey FlierNow: Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; George Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine · Harvard Medical School Will Claude ever win a Nobel Prize for medicine?
Faisal MahmoodNow: Scientific co-founder · Tremont AI Tremont AI comes out of stealth as a Mahmood Lab spin-out, licensing Mass General Brigham technology to read tissue from animal drug-safety studies
Venkatesh NarayanamurtiNow: Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Physics, Emeritus · Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Can AI Make Scientific Breakthroughs?
Anna GrekaNow: Core institute member; Executive Leadership Team · Broad Institute Building the Drug Discovery Engine of the Future with AI-Empowered Nodal Biology
Michael P. BrennerCatalyst Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and of Physics Google's ERA, in Nature: a language model searching over code writes single-cell and COVID-19 forecasting software that beats the best human methods on their benchmarks- LLauren WilliamsDwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics Eleven mathematicians release ten unpublished research questions to test whether AI can prove what they have proved
Nazim BouattaNow: Fellow, Harvard-Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology · Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology Protein Structure Prediction by AlphaFold2: Are Attention and Symmetries All You Need?
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Peter SorgerNow: Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science; Co-Director, Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science · Harvard Medical School Protein Structure Prediction by AlphaFold2: Are Attention and Symmetries All You Need?
Finale Doshi-VelezNow: Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science · Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Franziska MichorProfessor of Computational Biology and of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
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Alán Aspuru-GuzikFaculty; full professor from 2013 to 2018 Toronto's El Agente Quntur agents pick the orbitals for 32 excited-state calculations and halve the error of the best fixed protocol against published references
Chris BahlNow: Founder · AI Proteins Astellas signs AI Proteins to design miniprotein drugs against its targets, in a deal worth more than $400M with milestones
Xin JinNow: Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Dorris Neuroscience Center · Scripps Research One agent per perturbation: 1,946 copies of GPT-Rosalind re-derive most of a whole-brain Perturb-seq study's findings in 32 minutes, without the paper
Edward ChouchaniNow: Founder · Matchpoint Therapeutics Matchpoint Therapeutics · Series B · $150M
Jue WangNow: Research Scientist and Co-lead of the Protein Design Team · Google DeepMind Google DeepMind and Caltech's AlphaProtein Novo designs an enzyme that makes piperidine at 99:1, where none of 188 natural and engineered variants beat 30:70
Nicolas SawayaNow: Founder · Azulene Labs Azulene Labs · Pre-seed · $3.4M
Tom CunninghamCollege Fellow (Postdoctoral Fellow) METR: Economics and AI research (AI capabilities and economics)
Alexandre GramfortNow: Research Science Director · Meta Reality Labs Meta Reality Labs: Research Science Director
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