Leapscope breakthroughshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/Breakthroughs in AI, robots, space and science, checked against their sources.en722 manuscripts. A new scale of AI mathematics.https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/openai-math-2026/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/openai-math-2026/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMathematicsOpenAI published 722 manuscripts grouped into 372 result families, produced by an unreleased internal model. Three were withdrawn on October 7, leaving 719.A proposed bound on quantum entanglementhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/quantum-area-law/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/quantum-area-law/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPhysicsResult family 265 in OpenAI’s collection claims an area law for particular gapped two dimensional quantum systems.A claimed advance on zeta function zeroshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/quasi-riemann/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/quasi-riemann/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMathematicsResult family 003 claims a zero free region beyond real part 7/8 for certain L functions, including the Riemann zeta function.Starship reaches orbit and deploys Starlink satelliteshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/starship-flight-14-orbit/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/starship-flight-14-orbit/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTSpaceSpaceX flew Starship on its first orbital flight, releasing 26 Starlink V3 satellites before the ship splashed down near Hawaii, as reported by Aerospace America.Robotaxis logged 270 million miles with fewer injury crasheshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/waymo-270-million-miles/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/waymo-270-million-miles/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTTransportWaymo reported over 270 million fully driverless miles through June 2026, with 82% fewer injury crashes than human drivers in the same cities.Claude spots a hidden pattern in DNA: the ART enzyme systemhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/claude-enzyme/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/claude-enzyme/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTBiologyClaude identified a DNA repeat array beside an enzyme and a partner gene. Anthropic’s researchers call the newly described system ART.Humanoid robot does chores in 30 unseen homeshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/figure-helix-2-5-homes/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/figure-helix-2-5-homes/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRobotsFigure reported its Figure 03 robot, running Helix 2.5, tidied living rooms, folded towels and made beds in 30 Bay Area homes it had never seen before.Brain implant lets woman speak with her grandchildrenhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/paradromics-real-time-speech/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/paradromics-real-time-speech/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTNeurotechParadromics reported the first patient in its FDA approved trial, a woman with motor neuron disease, used its brain implant to produce real time speech, including a phone call with her grandchildren.A map of predicted DNA variant effectshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphagenome-atlas/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphagenome-atlas/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTBiologyGoogle released a database of predicted regulatory effects for nine billion possible single letter DNA changes.NASA launches Roman telescope to map dark universehttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/roman-space-telescope-launch/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/roman-space-telescope-launch/Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTSpaceNASA reported its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a Falcon Heavy to study dark matter, dark energy and exoplanets.Chinese startup lands an orbital rocket boosterhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/landspace-zhuque-3-landing/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/landspace-zhuque-3-landing/Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTSpaceSpaceflight Now reported LandSpace landed the first stage of its ZhuQue 3 rocket on legs in Gansu Province after its second launch.Algorithm discovery reaches more applicationshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphaevolve-impact/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphaevolve-impact/Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTComputingDeepMind reported follow up applications of AlphaEvolve in scientific and computing systems.Figure now builds one humanoid robot per hourhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/figure-03-production-ramp/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/figure-03-production-ramp/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTRobotsFigure reported its BotQ factory went from building 1 Figure 03 robot per day to 1 per hour in under 120 days, with over 350 built.Astronauts fly around the Moon and return safelyhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/artemis-ii-moon-flyby/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/artemis-ii-moon-flyby/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTSpaceNASA reported its Artemis II crew launched on April 1, 2026, completed a 10 day mission around the Moon, and splashed down off California on April 10.Proof attempts on research mathematicshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/first-proof/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/first-proof/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMTMathematicsOpenAI described its internal model’s attempts on ten First Proof problems.A new formula in particle theoryhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gpt-5-2-physics/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gpt-5-2-physics/Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMTPhysicsOpenAI reported that GPT-5.2 proposed a gluon amplitude formula, then an internal model proved it and the authors checked it.Private fusion machine hits 150 million degreeshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/helion-polaris-fusion/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/helion-polaris-fusion/Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMTEnergyHelion reported its Polaris prototype became the first private fusion machine to use deuterium and tritium fuel and reached 150 million degrees Celsius.Boston Dynamics starts building its factory ready Atlashttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/boston-dynamics-atlas-product/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/boston-dynamics-atlas-product/Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMTRobotsBoston Dynamics reported it has begun producing the product version of its electric Atlas humanoid, which lifts up to 50 kg and swaps its own batteries.AI contributing to research with expertshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gpt-5-science/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gpt-5-science/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMTScienceOpenAI published collaborations across mathematics, physics, biology and other fields.Very accurate quantum computer opens to paying customershttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/quantinuum-helios/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/quantinuum-helios/Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMTQuantumQuantinuum reported its 98 qubit Helios computer launched commercially with 99.921% two qubit gate accuracy and 48 error corrected logical qubits.First humanoid home robot opens for consumer ordershttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/1x-neo-home-humanoid/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/1x-neo-home-humanoid/Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMTRobots1X reported its NEO home humanoid is available to order for $20,000 or $499 per month, with first US home deliveries planned for 2026.Google quantum chip beats supercomputer on checkable taskhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/google-quantum-echoes/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/google-quantum-echoes/Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMTQuantumGoogle reported its Willow chip ran an algorithm called Quantum Echoes 13,000 times faster than the best classical method on a top supercomputer, published in Nature.Gold medal standard in mathematicshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gemini-imo-gold/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gemini-imo-gold/Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMTMathematicsAn advanced Gemini Deep Think system achieved gold medal standard on the 2025 IMO, with official grading.Predicting the effects of DNA changeshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphagenome/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphagenome/Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMTBiologyDeepMind previewed a model that predicts how sequence variants affect gene regulation.Custom gene edit treats baby with rare diseasehttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/baby-kj-personalized-crispr/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/baby-kj-personalized-crispr/Thu, 15 May 2025 12:00:00 GMTMedicineCHOP and Penn Medicine reported a baby with severe CPS1 deficiency received a gene editing therapy designed just for his mutation, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.Algorithms that improve through automated testshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphaevolve/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphaevolve/Wed, 14 May 2025 12:00:00 GMTComputingDeepMind introduced a Gemini powered agent that generates and tests algorithm changes.Generating hypotheses for scientists to testhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/ai-co-scientist/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/ai-co-scientist/Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMTBiologyGoogle introduced a Gemini based system to propose and refine scientific hypotheses with researchers.Silver medal standard on IMO problemshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphaproof-imo/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphaproof-imo/Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMTMathematicsDeepMind reported silver medal standard performance on the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad problems.Predicting how biological molecules fit togetherhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphafold-3/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphafold-3/Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 GMTBiologyGoogle DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduced predictions for complexes involving proteins, DNA, RNA and other molecules.Solving Olympiad geometryhttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphageometry/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphageometry/Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMTMathematicsThe system solved 25 of 30 selected Olympiad geometry problems within the benchmark time limit.New mathematical constructions from codehttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/funsearch/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/funsearch/Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMTMathematicsDeepMind combined an LLM with automated evaluation to search for mathematical constructions and algorithms.Searching for stable new materialshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gnome/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/gnome/Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:00:00 GMTMaterialsDeepMind used a graph neural network and computational checks to identify promising crystal structures.Fast global weather forecastshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/graphcast/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/graphcast/Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:00:00 GMTClimateDeepMind published a learned system that generates forecasts up to ten days ahead.AI finds new matrix multiplication algorithmshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphatensor/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphatensor/Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:00:00 GMTComputingDeepMind published algorithms discovered by reinforcement learning for multiplying matrices.Predicting protein shapeshttps://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphafold-2/https://leapscopeai.com/milestones/alphafold-2/Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMTBiologyAlphaFold 2 achieved a major improvement in protein structure prediction in the CASP14 assessment.