Google's new AI co-scientist

PLUS: Microsoft's 'Muse' game-generating AI

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Rowan Cheung
February 20, 2025

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Google just turned AI into every scientist's dream research partner — showcasing a co-scientist system capable of making new drug discoveries and outperforming human experts.

With a team of specialized agents helping crack scientific mysteries at superhuman speed, the future of research and AI-driven discovery has never been brighter.

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In today’s AI rundown:

  • Google’s multi-agent AI co-scientist

  • Microsoft’s game-generating Muse AI

  • Building phone apps with zero code

  • The largest AI model for biology

  • 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

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The Rundown: Google just launched an AI co-scientist, a multi-agent research assistant (built on Gemini 2.0) that accelerates scientific discoveries by generating and validating new hypotheses across areas like medicine, genetics, and more.

The details:

  • The system deploys six specialized AI agents working in parallel, from hypothesis generation to validation of research proposals and final review.

  • In trials at Stanford and Imperial College, the system identified new drug applications and predicted gene transfer mechanisms in just days.

  • Initial testing shows 80%+ accuracy on expert-level benchmarks, outperforming both existing AI models and human experts.

  • Google is rolling out access through a Trusted Tester Program, targeting research organizations globally for trials across multiple scientific domains.

Why it matters: Recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said next-gen models will start discovering “new bits of scientific knowledge.” Google’s AI co-scientist now seems to be following that path. What we are seeing is the early stage of a new era where AI will serve as an integral part of scientists’ toolkits.

TOGETHER WITH TELY AI

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MICROSOFT

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The Rundown: Microsoft researchers just introduced Muse, an AI model that can generate minutes of cohesive gameplay from a single second of reference frames and controller actions.

The details:

  • Muse is the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM) with the ability to predict 3D environments and actions for producing consistent game structures.

  • The model creates unique, playable 2-minute sequences that follow actual game physics and mechanics from just a single second of gameplay input.

  • It has been trained on over seven years of continuous gameplay data, covering 1B+ images and controller actions, from the popular Xbox game Bleeding Edge.

  • Microsoft is open-sourcing Muse’s model weights, demonstrator tool, and sample data, allowing other developers and researchers to build on the release.

Why it matters: Game development requires several months of character design, animation, and testing, but models like Muse could cut down this cycle to mere days. It won’t be long before AI-created games are climbing the charts — and Elon seems to agree, given his recent xAI gaming studio reveal.

AI TRAINING

The Rundown: Windsurf lets you create fully functional mobile applications using its AI assistant and plain English commands, all without writing a single line of code.

Step-by-step:

  1. Install Windsurf and Xcode (with iOS 17.5 simulator) for testing

  2. Create a new project using 'npx create-expo-app your-app-name'

  3. Use Cascade AI assistant to build your app by describing its features in plain English.

  4. Test and refine your app using the iOS simulator.

Pro tip: We did an extensive workshop on building using Windsurf with Kevin Hou, the Head of Product Engineering at Codeium. You can access it here (alongside an exclusive, free Rundown University member code for a 2-month Windsurf Pro plan).

PRESENTED BY INNOVATING WITH AI

The Rundown: Innovating with AI’s new program, AI Consultancy Project, equips AI enthusiasts with all the resources they need to capitalize on the booming AI consulting market – set to grow 8x to $54.7B by 2032.

The program offers:

  • Tools and framework to find clients and deliver top-notch services

  • A 6-month roadmap to build a 6-figure AI consulting business

  • Student landing their first AI client in as little as 3 days

ARC INSTITUTE AND NVIDIA

Image source: Nvidia

The Rundown: Arc Institute and Nvidia just released Evo 2, an upgrade to its genome foundation AI model trained on over 9T DNA building blocks from 128,000 species (the entire tree of life) — making it the largest AI system for biological research and design.

The details:

  • The model processes sequences up to 1M nucleotides long, enabling analysis of entire bacterial genomes and human chromosomes at once.

  • Evo 2 achieved 90% accuracy in predicting cancer-causing gene mutations during testing, also successfully designing working synthetic genomes.

  • The system was trained on 2,048 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, with its 40B parameters matching the scale of top language models.

  • Arc is making Evo 2 freely available through NVIDIA's BioNeMo platform, allowing researchers worldwide to use and build on the tech.

Why it matters: As AI models start mastering individual biological tasks like protein folding, Evo 2 is a shift toward systems that understand life's code as a whole. The ability to work across species at scale could transform how we approach everything from drug development to synthetic organisms.

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