My takeaway - from this article, from Google’s AlphaEvolve [1], and the recent announcement about o3 finding a zero day in the Linux kernel [2] - is that Gemini Pro 2.5 and o3 in particular have reached a new level of capability where these ideas that were tried unsuccessfully with other models, suddenly just work.
[1] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-p...
[2] https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-...