This year’s breakthroughs at Google I/O reflect a new bold agentic era. With models that are more powerful than ever and an agentic coding platform, we’re making Google products substantially more helpful for everyone while transforming how researchers tackle the most pressing scientific and societal challenges. As research translates into tangible, real-world impact, we’re turning AI and technology into an amplifier of human ingenuity.Here are a few key highlights from Google Research, done in close collaboration with many teams across Google and global partners.
Towards a new era of scientific discovery
AI is enabling a new era of scientific discovery. Google is building advanced AI-based tools designed to accelerate progress for the global scientific community. Our foundational technology is empowering researchers worldwide to drive breakthroughs across domains using the scientific method from hypothesis generation to computational experimentation. At I/O, we announced Gemini for Science which is built with our foundational research, including Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) and Co-Scientist — both published in Nature last week.Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) is a research coding system developed to help scientists write expert-level empirical software. Last week’s ERA publication in Nature followed months of collaboration with academic partners to explore the system’s real-world applications. ERA has helped accelerate discoveries from neuroscience to cosmology. Our latest results include predicting hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses and forecasting seasonal runoff across California's river basins. These are available in our new GitHub directory. They signal the power of AI to unlock deeper insights with compute and accelerate discovery.
