Matej Balog
matejbalog.bsky.social
Matej Balog
@matejbalog.bsky.social
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, working on algorithm discovery using AI: AlphaTensor, FunSearch, and beyond
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Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has
- made new scientific discoveries
- discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers)

Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
White paper:
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
deepmind.google
Reposted by Matej Balog
A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
AlphaEvolve is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines ...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Reposted by Matej Balog
AlphaEvolve finds new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design and more.
Google DeepMind’s new AI uses large language models to crack real-world problems
AlphaEvolve finds new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design and more.
www.technologyreview.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has
- made new scientific discoveries
- discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers)

Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
White paper:
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
deepmind.google
May 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reposted by Matej Balog
We introduce 🌸✨ AlphaEvolve ✨🌸, an evolutionary coding agent using LLMs coupled with automatic evaluators, to tackle open scientific problems 🧑‍🔬 and optimize critical pieces of compute infra ⚙️

deepmind.google/discover/blo...
May 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Matej Balog
Also not the first time (nor the last) that DeepMind has improved a component of quantum computers! arxiv.org/abs/2402.14396
November 20, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Great work, congratulations to both teams!
I'm super excited to share that our work on AlphaQubit, a high accuracy neural network quantum error correction decoder, is now published in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Quantum computing: physics–AI collaboration quashes quantum errors
Machine-learning strategy for quantum error correction.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Matej Balog
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
November 19, 2024 at 9:39 PM