The research paper detailing Google's Gemini AI assistant features an unprecedented 3,295 authors, prompting curiosity about the sheer scale of collaboration in AI development. Notably, the initial authors' names reveal a coded message highlighting the AI's abilities. The paper, discussing the Gemini 2.5 AI models, emphasizes advanced reasoning capabilities, multimodal engagement, and agentic functions. Despite the large author count, it falls short of the record for academic authorship, previously set by papers with over 15,000 authors, showcasing the growing trend of collaboration in scientific research.
The paper titled "Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities" describes Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash AI models, which feature simulated reasoning capabilities that produce a string of "thinking out loud" text before generating responses to help solve more difficult problems.
While 3,295 authors represents an enormous collaborative effort within Google, it doesn't break the record for academic authorship, with a 2021 paper by the COVIDSurg and GlobalSurg Collaboratives holding that distinction with 15,025 authors.
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