Google DeepMind AlphaEvolve: LLM + Evolutionary Algorithms Crack 56-Year Math Problems, an AI Autonomous Evolution Engine from Scientific Discovery to Engineering Optimization

1. Introduction In July 2026, Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve AI once again became the focus of the tech world. This general-purpose scientific AI agent, combining large language models with evolutionary computation, has achieved breakthrough advances across mathematics, engineering optimization, and chip design — cracking the 56-year-old 4×4 matrix multiplication optimization problem, refreshing the “kissing number problem” lower bound in 11-dimensional space, and recovering 0.7% of global computing resources for Google’s data centers.