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Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper doesn’t just have 3,295 authors, it hides a secret message. Plus: agent upgrades, Claude drama, and the most viral AI art online right now.

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📜 3,295 Authors & a Hidden Message? Google’s Gemini Paper is a Whole Vibe

How many AI researchers does it take to write a paper? According to Google: 3,295, plus one secret Easter egg.

This week, researchers discovered that Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper also hid a surprise. If you take the first initials of the paper’s first 43 authors, there’s bigger message: AI development has become a massive team sport, model papers starting to look more like phone books.

By comparison:

• Gemini 1 (2023) had “just” 1,350 authors.

• GPT-4o System Card: 417 authors.

• o1 System Card: 260 authors.

Google’s author list grew massively in under two years (from 1,350 to 3,295). It seems to be especially inclusive in crediting everyone involved. It’s different from how OpenAI or Anthropic do it, where credits are still large, but more selective.

One sarcastic takeaway: If authors keep increasing 144% every two years… by 2040, Google AI papers might need 2.6 million names. Hope you like scrolling.

And honestly? If the models can think and get back to us in a flash, we might soon need them to summarize their own authorship lists too.

Why It Matters: AI model papers are becoming multi-disciplinary artifacts, like scientific missions or particle physics collaborations. With thousands of names, it’s getting harder to tell who did what. Should we coordinate at Google-scale to move it forward?

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And now that this kind of lab is possible, you’ve gotta wonder: Where’s the “OpenAI of chemistry”? Where’s the “Claude for clean energy materials”?

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