DeepMind unveils DeepNash, an AI agent that matches human experts in the board game Stratego by combining game theory and model-free deep reinforcement learning (Anil Ananthaswamy/Nature)

Ewen Callaway / Nature:
Meta researchers develop a LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins; the model is less accurate than DeepMind’s AlphaFold, but ~60x faster  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  When London-based Deep Mind unveiled predicted structures …

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
DeepMind uses its AlphaTensor AI to quickly solve a matrix multiplication problem by building a custom TensorGame board game, beating a 50-year-old record  —  The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
Alphabet’s DeepMind unveils Sparrow, an AI chatbot that learns from human feedback and searches Google for information to support its claims  —  The lab trained a chatbot to learn from human feedback and search the internet for information to support its claims.

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils Supply Chain Center software in preview to help customers track supply chains by combining data from its own programs plus Oracle and others  —  Microsoft Corp. unveiled software that will help customers track and coordinate supply-chain systems by combining data …

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Google announces a beta release of Simple ML, a no-code ML add-on for Google Sheets, that enables users to apply machine learning to their data  —  Google LLC today launched a new tool that will enable users to develop artificial intelligence models in Google Sheets.  —  The tool, dubbed Simple ML, is available in beta.

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google unveils search results with a “Discussions and forums” section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and with machine-translated news coverage, in early 2023  —  At Search On 2022, Google announced that “Discussions and forums” will be getting their own sections in results …