Did you miss these 2 AI stories? A *Real* LLM-crafted Breakthrough + Continual Learning Blocked?

While compute-spend focuses on cash over cleverness, it can seem like the AI IQ plateau will last forever. But here’s a breakthrough for science, led by an LLM. And not even the latest or greatest one! I’ll go over CS2-Scale, then the Definition of AGI paper, a key continual learning quote, and Sora 2 answering Math questions… https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - C2S 04:48 - OpenAI not too far behind (Simple, Codex) 06:37 - A Definition of AGI? 11:10 - OpenAI Researcher on Continual Learning Problems 13:02 - Sora 2 can answer math qs C2S Release Notes: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/ Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648850v2.full.pdf AGI definition: https://www.agidefinition.ai/paper.pdf Jerry Tworek Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqWIvvv3SnQ https://simple-bench.com/ DeepThink Record: https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1976340039178305924 Sora 2 for Q&A: https://x.com/epochairesearch/status/1974172794012459296 Hell in a Cell: https://x.com/boneGPT/status/1978614451223003567 GPT-5 Breakthrough?: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1979417877590774063 Quantum: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1981013746698100811 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/