Science
Unlocking a new era of discovery with AI
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Co-Scientist: A collaborative AI research partner
AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields
Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician
Engineering more resilient crops for a warming climate
AlphaFold: Five years of impact
A national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discovery
AI for Science
Scientific discovery is the engine of human progress. But society’s most pressing challenges are more vast and complex than ever before.
They’re combinatorial puzzles – problems with so many possible answers that they’re practically impossible for traditional science to solve.
We believe AI is the right tool to decode these mysteries, and solve the root node challenges holding back entire fields of scientific knowledge.
Our blueprint is AlphaFold. In 2020, AlphaFold solved the protein-folding problem. Today, it’s used by over 3 million researchers, tackling problems like malaria and climate resistance.
This is just the beginning.
We’re now applying that same rigor to explore challenges from curing disease to achieving infinite clean energy.
With AI, scientists have a superpower to generate and test hypotheses at previously unimaginable scale and speed. With AI, nature becomes an informational system, where discoveries are made through a systematic, accelerated approach.
We don’t do it alone: we’re proud to work in deep collaboration with scientists around the globe. This is all part of our ambition to make sure AI-powered science benefits everyone.
Domains
We take a multidisciplinary approach to connect different fields of scientific study. To support researchers as they work towards new breakthroughs.
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Life sciences and health
Accelerating breakthroughs to improve health – and help humanity better understand life itself
Earth and sustainability
Mapping and forecasting geospatial environments, to protect nature, people, and communities
Energy and materials
Revolutionizing the energy sector, and discovering the next generation of cutting-edge materials
Algorithmic foundations
Advancing computer science, mathematical and quantum systems
Life sciences and health
Accelerating breakthroughs to improve health – and help humanity better understand life itself
Earth and sustainability
Mapping and forecasting geospatial environments, to protect nature, people, and communities
Energy and materials
Revolutionizing the energy sector, and discovering the next generation of cutting-edge materials
Algorithmic foundations
Advancing computer science, mathematical and quantum systems
Breakthroughs
Our AI tools have already unlocked the potential of new materials discovery, evolved the science of weather forecasting, and solved fundamental, long-standing scientific problems.
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Life sciences and health
AlphaFold
AlphaFold solved the protein-folding grand challenge, and has predicted over 200 million protein structures. Recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it currently has over three million users from over 190 countries.
Earth and sustainability
WeatherNext 2
WeatherNext 2 generates more accurate and rapid weather predictions than traditional methods, to help protect communities and livelihoods.
Algorithmic foundations
AlphaEvolve
A coding agent built with Gemini for designing advanced algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators.
Earth and sustainability
AlphaEarth Foundations
A global, analysis-ready collection of geospatial embeddings. The embeddings encode relationships across multi-source, multi-modal observations and their trajectories over time.
Life sciences and health
AlphaGenome
Predict how single variants or mutations in human DNA sequences impact the biological processes that regulate genes.
Explore our breakthroughs
Impact
How scientists are using our models, and accelerating breakthroughs to benefit humanity.
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Forecasting extreme weather
In partnership with the National Hurricane Center, WeatherNext provided critical data to predict Hurricane Melissa’s Category 5 landfall three days in advance.
Multi-agent AI for science: Generating hypotheses with Co-Scientist
Every great scientific breakthrough begins with a single, transformative idea. The spark of discovery relies on a researcher's ability to connect disparate facts and formulate the right hypothesis to test.
Combating high-burden diseases in Africa
Dr. Daudi Jjingo and his team at Makerere University are using AlphaFold and AlphaGenome to accelerate research into regional health challenges, including malaria, sickle cell disease, and cancer.
Combating antimicrobial resistance
Ben Luisi’s lab at the University of Cambridge is using a suite of AI tools to target two essential bacterial processes at once, creating a powerful new way to fight superbugs without triggering further resistance.
Uncovering repurposed medicines to fight liver fibrosis
Co-Scientist helped accelerate Gary Peltz’s search for liver fibrosis treatments. The AI system highlighted overlooked drug-repurposing candidates, including one that successfully blocked 91% of a scarring-linked response in lab tests. The results, published in Advanced Science, point toward new gene-regulating approaches to treat chronic liver disease.
Uniting biological toolkits for a new approach to ALS
Co-Scientist helped unite Ritu Raman and Ryan Flynn’s labs around the degenerative disease, ALS. The system helped Ritu quickly digest complex literature, propose testable ideas, and spot where complementary expertise could strengthen the best leads, sparking collaboration with Ryan on potential RNA-based approaches to ALS.
Hunting the molecular switches behind new infectious diseases
Clare Bryant is using Co-Scientist to help identify the proteins that cause severe disease when pathogens like flu and COVID-19 leap from animals to humans. Iterating with the AI system, she rapidly narrowed the hunt to specific amino acids her lab will test — potentially cutting years of experimental work down to months.
Powering scientific discovery with AI
Introducing Gemini for Science
Accelerate your research with AI tools and resources built to support scientific endeavors
AI resources for the scientific community
AlphaFold
Reveals millions of intricate 3D protein structures, and helps scientists understand how life’s molecules interact.
AlphaGenome
Predicts how variants or mutations in human DNA sequences impact the biological processes that regulate genes.
AlphaMissense
Catalogues millions of genetic mutations to help pinpoint the root causes of diseases.
AlphaProteo
Designs proteins that successfully bind to target molecules, with the potential to advance disease understanding and drug design.
WeatherNext
Generates more accurate and rapid weather predictions, to help protect communities and livelihoods.
AlphaEarth Foundations
Analyzes petabytes of map data in minutes to accurately detect, segment, and classify geospatial changes.
Perch 2
Disentangles thousands of hours of dense, complex audio to monitor animal populations – and answers questions about their behavior and environment.
Fusion
Accelerates fusion science through learned plasma control.
GNoME
Speeds up the discovery of inorganic crystals, essential components for technology like solar panels and batteries.
Deep Loop Shaping
Helps astronomers study the universe’s most powerful processes, by stabilizing sensitive observation instruments.
AlphaQubit
Identifies quantum computing errors, to tackle one of quantum computing’s biggest challenges – reliability.
Quantum Matter
Uses deep learning to solve fundamental problems in computational quantum chemistry.
Fluid Dynamics
Helps mathematicians leverage AI techniques to tackle long-standing challenges in mathematics, physics and engineering.
FermiNet
Using deep learning to solve fundamental problems in computational quantum chemistry and explore how matter interacts with light.
AlphaEvolve
Evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators.
AlphaProof
Translates mathematical problems into a formal language to verify proofs.
AlphaGeometry
Solves complex geometry problems at a level close to a human Mathematical Olympiad gold-medalist.
AlphaChip
Accelerates and optimizes chip design to create incredibly powerful chip layouts.
FunSearch
Makes new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models.
AlphaDev
Discovers faster sorting algorithms to transform the foundations of computing.