Quantum Pill Weekly #070 - Latest breakthroughs and advancements in AI, Molecular Biology, and Software.
Empowering minds, one Pill at a time.
💊 Google I/O 2025
💡Description: At its 2025 I/O developer conference, Google unveiled a suite of AI-driven innovations. Key announcements included the integration of Gemini into Google Search via “AI Mode”, Project Astra as a prototype for a universal AI assistant capable of proactive task management, and a collaboration with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to develop stylish Android XR smart glasses, powered by Gemini AI.
💭Mental Meal: They also unveiled Veo 3, DeepMind’s latest AI video generation model, which can produce high-quality, 8-second videos from simple text prompts, delivering realistic visuals and syncronised audio that align seamlessly. It represents a breakthrough video model, marking a shift from silent videos to “talkies”.
💊 Claude 4
💡Description: Anthropic has unveiled its Claude 4 series, featuring the advanced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 models. These models showcase significant improvements in reasoning, planning, and memory retention over extended interactions.
💭Mental Meal: Claude Opus 4, in particular, demonstrated its capabilities by autonomously playing Pokémon Red for 24 hours, a substantial increase from the previous 45-minute limit. This performance highlights the model’s enhanced long-term coherence and decision-making abilities.
💊 OpenAI hardware
💡Description: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design chief Jony Ive are collaborating on a groundbreaking AI device envisioned as a “third core” gadget, complementing smartphones and laptops.
💭Mental Meal: This pocket-sized, screenless, and non-wearable device is designed to be context-aware, integrating seamlessly into users’ lives without the need for traditional screens or wearables.
💊 Contacts for superhuman sight
💡Description: Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed innovative contact lenses that enable wearers to perceive near-infrared light, a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum typically invisible to the human eye.
💭Mental Meal: These lenses incorporate upconversion nanoparticles composed of rare earth metals, which absorb low-energy infrared photons and emit higher-energy visible light. The lenses are transparent, require no external power source, and allow users to see both visible and infrared light simultaneously.
💊 Microsoft NLWeb
💡Description: Microsoft has introduced NLWeb at their Build 2025 conference, an open-source protocol designed to transform websites into AI-powered, conversational platforms. NLWeb enables developers to integrate natural language interfaces into their sites by leveraging existing structured data formats.
💭Mental Meal: Each NLWeb instance operates as a Model Control Protocol (MCP) server, facilitating seamless interaction between AI systems and web content.
💊 New antibody supercharges immune attack
💡Description: Scientists have developed a novel antibody, PLT012, that enhances the immune system’s ability to attack tumors. PLT012 targets the fat transporter protein CD36, which is often exploited by cancer cells to suppress immune responses.
💭Mental Meal: By inhibiting CD36, PLT012 restores the activity of T cells within the tumor microenvironment, leading to a more robust immune attack on cancer cells. This approach has shown promising results in preclinical studies, suggesting potential for improved cancer immunotherapy.
💊 AI learns to see like humans
💡Description: Researchers from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Yonsei University have introduced a novel brain-inspired AI method called Lp-Convolution. This technique enhances image recognition by dynamically reshaping convolutional neural network (CNN) filters, combining biological inspiration with mathematical rigor.
💭Mental Meal: By mimicking aspects of human visual processing, Lp-Convolution allows AI systems to adaptively focus on relevant features within visual data, leading to improved performance in tasks such as object recognition and scene understanding.
💊 Orbital AI supercomputer
💡Description: China started building a groundbreaking AI-powered supercomputer network in space, known as the “Three-Body Computing Constellation.” The initiative commenced with the launch of the first 12 satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, aiming to deploy a total of 2,800 satellites.
💭Mental Meal: Each satellite is equipped with an eight-billion-parameter AI model capable of processing data in orbit, reducing reliance on terrestrial computing facilities. This network is designed to achieve a collective computing power of one quintillion operations per second, rivaling the world’s most powerful ground-based supercomputers.
💊 Proton therapy breakthrough
💡Description: Researchers have achieved a significant milestone in cancer treatment by utilizing advanced proton therapy to eliminate a rare and hard-to-treat cancer with minimal side effects.
💭Mental Meal: This innovative approach precisely targets tumor cells while sparing surrounding healthy tissue, leading to effective eradication of the cancer without the typical adverse effects associated with conventional treatments.
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