Sam Rodriques

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Hard Fork · Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? · 26 Dec 2025 podcast

The six-month number specifically, the way that we measured this was we had a bunch of academic collaborators, scientists who had done a bunch of science previously that they had not published yet.

And we basically gave the same research objective and the same data set to the AI, to Cosmos.

And we ask it to go away and just make new discoveries.

And it would come back and it had found the same things that the researchers had found.

overnight.

And then you go and you ask the researchers, you know, how long did it take you to find this in the first place?

And they would say like three months, five months, like six months, whatever.

And so that's where it comes from.

And it's like, that's the amount of time that it took them to come up with the finding.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, so it is indeed a box that you basically type into.

You ask a research objective.

It's not a chat bot, right?

It runs for 12 hours or so before eventually coming back to you with its findings.

In terms of how it's built,

We build on top of a bunch of different language models from OpenAI, from Google, from Anthropic.

In any given run, we use models from all the different providers.

We also have our own models for specific tasks that we've trained internally, where those models are much better for the specific tasks that we train them on than the models that the Frontier providers make.

Got it.

And then the key insight in Cosmos

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