# Google DeepMinds LLM Designed an Algorithm That Beat Human Experts Then Picked a Number That Exactly Matched a Process It Never Saw

- slug: google-deepminds-llm-designed-an-algorithm-that-beat-human-experts-then-picked-a-number-that-exa
- date: 2026-04-04
- category: Artificial Intelligence

A footnote in a new DeepMind paper: Gemini 2.5 Pro was asked to design a better learning algorithm and chose to delay a key step until iteration 500, without knowing the evaluation ran to 1,000. The algorithm still beat human-designed baselines in 10 of 11 games.

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