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Google’s AlphaEvolve: The AI agent that reclaimed 0.7% of Google’s compute – and how to copy it
Google's AlphaEvolve is the epitome of a best-practice AI agent orchestration. It offers a lesson in production-grade agent engineering. Discover its architecture & essential takeaways for your enterprise AI strategy.
It blends three kinds of context: earlier code attempts saved in a project database, any guardrails or rules the engineering team has written and relevant external material such as research papers or developer notes. It fires off parallel tasks inside a secure sandbox, runs unit tests and returns pull-request drafts—effectively a code-specific echo of AlphaEvolve’s broader search-and-evaluate loop. AlphaEvolve’s tangible wins – reclaiming 0.7% of data center capacity, cutting Gemini training kernel runtime 23%, speeding FlashAttention 32%, and simplifying TPU design – share one trait: they target domains with airtight metrics.
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