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TL;DR - Google DeepMind and academic collaborators announced a new upper bound on the matrix multiplication exponent, ω < 2.371177, achieved with help from the Gemini-powered AlphaEvolve coding agent. The result advances a longstanding complexity-theory problem underlying computational workloads including AI.

  • Matrix multiplication’s theoretically fastest asymptotic complexity remains unknown.
  • The new result improves the best known upper bound for ω.
  • The work builds on combination loss analysis, a refinement of the laser method.
  • AlphaEvolve contributed to the team effort, highlighting AI coding agents’ potential for mathematical and algorithmic discovery.

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RT by @GoogleDeepMind: Matrix multiplication is the basic computational operation that powers…

@pushmeet 2026-08-18 arXiv:2608.16884
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TL;DR - Google DeepMind and academic collaborators announced a new upper bound on the matrix multiplication exponent, ω < 2.371177, achieved with help from the Gemini-powered AlphaEvolve coding agent. The result advances a longstanding complexity-theory problem underlying computational workloads including AI.

  • Matrix multiplication’s theoretically fastest asymptotic complexity remains unknown.
  • The new result improves the best known upper bound for ω.
  • The work builds on combination loss analysis, a refinement of the laser method.
  • AlphaEvolve contributed to the team effort, highlighting AI coding agents’ potential for mathematical and algorithmic discovery.
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