According to Sawyer Merritt, Waymo has unveiled a comprehensive AI strategy in its latest blog post, demonstrating how its unified world-model, the Waymo Foundation Model, enables faster expansion of autonomous ride services while prioritizing safety (source: Waymo blog, Dec 2025). By integrating a 'Think Fast/Think Slow' architecture that blends rapid sensor fusion with deep semantic reasoning, Waymo’s ecosystem goes beyond just building a smart driver. The system incorporates a closed-loop simulator for rigorous training and a critic module for ongoing evaluation. This holistic approach underpins a continuous learning cycle, where real and simulated driving data refine AI models and ensure only safety-validated updates are deployed. As a result, Waymo has surpassed 100 million fully autonomous miles and reports a more than ten-fold reduction in severe-injury crashes compared to human drivers, underscoring the business impact and scalability of safe AI in autonomous transportation (source: Waymo blog, Dec 2025).

According to Sundar Pichai, the C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, developed in partnership with Yale and based on Gemma architecture, has generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior. This hypothesis was experimentally validated in living cells by scientists, marking a significant achievement for AI-driven biomedical research. With further preclinical and clinical testing, this AI-powered discovery could unlock new pathways for developing cancer therapies, demonstrating the transformative impact of large language models in accelerating scientific breakthroughs and pharmaceutical innovation (source: @sundarpichai on Twitter, Oct 15, 2025).