FutureHouse unveils four AI scientists, Google gets an AI turbo button, AI gets a quantum boost

🧪 FutureHouse Unveils Four “AI Scientists”

FutureHouse (a Cambridge‑based nonprofit) launched Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix. Agents that read papers, cross‑reference databases, and even plan chemistry experiments. FutureHouse is on their way to their goal of creating an AI scientist.

You can do concise search, deep search, precedent, and the molecular synthesis is experimental. The logic is well explained and has copious papers and references. “By chaining these AI together, scientists can greatly accelerate the pace of scientific discovery.”

Fun Fact: FutureHouse claims its agents chain reasoning steps together “better than humans.” I wonder which humans are the benchmark here.

🔎 Google Search Gets an AI Turbo Button

Google (the search giant that still prints money with ads) just dropped the waitlist for AI Mode in Search Labs, opening the experimental feature to every U.S. user. Beyond long‑form answers, the update adds visual place and product cards plus a left‑panel timeline so you can pick up research where you left off.

You can try it for yourself here.

Fun Fact: Under the hood, AI Mode taps Google’s 45‑billion‑item Shopping Graph, refreshed two billion times an hour.

⚛️ AI goes quantum

IonQ (the Maryland‑based company building trapped‑ion quantum computers) says its Forte machine just helped two tricky AI jobs:

• fine‑tuning a large‑language model

• training a quantum‑enhanced GAN that generates sharper steel‑microstructure images

Much how better? In early tests, the QGAN’s pictures beat classical GANs 70 % of the time, while the hybrid LLM classifier squeezed out higher accuracy with fewer parameters. Also a projected energy savings once you scale past ~46 qubits.

What are GANs? Generative Adversarial Networks are basically two neural nets in a face-off with each other. One is an art forger, the other is a detective. Until the detective can’t figure out which one is the forgery.

Fun Fact: A quantum computer with just 300 qubits could juggle 2³⁰⁰ possible states at once—that’s a number so huge it outnumbers all the atoms in the observable universe.

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