The AI Scientist That Does 6 Months of Work in a Day
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
An emerging “AI scientist” called Kosmos is claiming the ability to do six months of research in a single day—reading 1,500 papers, writing tens of thousands of lines of code, and producing validated discoveries across neuroscience, genetics, material science, and Alzheimer’s research. This episode breaks down what Kosmos actually is, how it works, why Sam Altman is paying attention, and what it signals about the coming era of AI-accelerated science. Plus: the latest Gemini 3 hype cycle, Berkshire’s new AI-driven bet on Google, and why Michael Burry just shut down his fund.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, an AI scientist that can do six months of work in a single day. |
| 0:06.8 | Before that in the headlines, Gemini 3 hype hits fever pitch. |
| 0:11.5 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:25.9 | All right, friends, quick notes before we dive in. |
| 0:30.7 | Firstly, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Robo, Robots and Pencils, and Blitzy. |
| 0:36.4 | To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief or subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you are interested in sponsoring the show, send |
| 0:38.8 | us a note at sponsors at AIDailybrief.a.i to learn more. And lastly today, we are rounding the corner |
| 0:44.2 | on the AI-R-OI benchmarking study. Thank you to all of you who have already contributed. I'm pretty |
| 0:49.1 | sure this is now one of the biggest collections of AI ROI information. You have now about a week left to get your AI use cases in. |
| 0:57.4 | Anyone that adds three or more will get the full detailed readout of the report. |
| 1:02.1 | Again, you can find the information about that at ROIurvey.com. |
| 1:05.1 | And there is one week left. |
| 1:07.2 | With that, let's join the hype train, my friends. |
| 1:10.2 | Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. |
| 1:15.4 | It is a big risk as a podcaster to talk about speculation about an imminent release. |
| 1:21.4 | The chances are just so good that by the time someone hears the show, the thing that you're |
| 1:26.1 | talking about people all hyping up will actually be out and the show will instantly be dated. However, in this case, I don't care. First of all, it's a huge part of the conversation going on right now all over the AI community. And second, I kind of feel like it's similar to when you're in a restaurant and you've been waiting for your meal for a while and you head to the washroom and hopes that by the time you come back, your food will be sitting there waiting for you, all glittering and ready. In other words, if it happens to be the case that Google pops in and drops Gemini 3 right on top of my head, I'll take it. Now, generically, people have been getting excited for the Gemini 3 release for a while. |
| 2:02.7 | However, it certainly feels basically confirmed at this point with a teasing tweet from Google CEO Sundar Bichai on Friday. |
| 2:10.3 | Sundar retweeted Polymarket showing 69% odds of the model being released this week, with two thinking face emojis. |
| 2:18.2 | Other Googlers, basically all over X, are also teasing the release. |
| 2:22.6 | You even have some of the open AI folks getting excited. |
| 2:25.3 | With Adam GPT posting, I'm excited for the rumored Gemini 3 model. |
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