Index.

Every Bright discovery, plainly: 65 records with their evidence state, the date the source was published, the date Bright added it, and where it sits on the physical scale. The 14 scales on the front page are a curated edition drawn from this list.

9 of 65 records, sorted by scale (descending). Scale is approximate: the size of the subject itself, or of the setting where the work happens. Records with no honest physical size are off the axis.
RecordScaleEvidencePublishedAdded to BrightWho
More time to decide when to plant.On the scale: a subcontinent’s rains ≈ 2,000 kmsize of the settingDeployed2025-12-022026-09-07India Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab, India Meteorological Department
A smoke alert still reaches a person. ≈ 20 kmsize of the settingDeployed2025-05-082026-09-09Pano AI, NVIDIA
Making room in a data centerOn the scale: a computing campus ≈ 1 kmsize of the settingDeployed2025-05-142026-09-07Google DeepMind, Google
Lasers matched the herbicides.On the scale: a field ≈ 100 msize of the settingDeployed2025-06-242026-09-09Cornell AgriTech, Rutgers University, Western Growers
A public archive that starts with your question. ≈ 30 msize of the settingDeployed2025-11-182026-09-07National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Foundation
A boat that notices what it collects. ≈ 5 msize of the settingDeployed2024-10-172026-09-09Clearbot, NVIDIA
Reasoning weights people can run themselves.On the scale: the laptop in front of you ≈ 30 cmsize of the settingDeployed2025-08-052026-09-07OpenAI
A screen reader that can take a follow-up question. ≈ 15 cmsize of the settingDeployed2025-05-152026-09-07Google, Project Euphonia, University College London Centre for Digital Language Inclusion
A warehouse robot that knows when to stop squeezing.On the scale: an item in a robot’s grip ≈ 8 cmsize of the settingDeployednot shown by the source2026-09-07Amazon Robotics

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