Aeneas connects fragmentary ancient inscriptions
Google DeepMind and collaborators published Aeneas, a multimodal model that retrieves parallels, restores missing text, estimates date and suggests provenance for Latin inscriptions. The Nature paper, code and an interactive research tool were released.
Why it matters: Aeneas demonstrates a useful expert-AI pattern: retrieve inspectable analogues and uncertainty ranges instead of presenting one unsupported historical answer.