We are at a tipping point where the convergence of advanced AI and scientific research promises to usher in a golden age of new discoveries. Recognizing this, we are pleased to support the White House’s Genesis Mission, a historic national effort to use AI to transform how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the pace of American science. The Genesis mission brings together 17 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, industry, and academia to create an integrated discovery platform to accelerate breakthroughs in America’s most pressing challenges, including energy, scientific discovery, and national security.
Google DeepMind’s mission is to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the application of AI in science. Today’s scientists face significant obstacles of unprecedented scale and complexity, from forming and simulating the complex dynamics of fusion plasmas, to exploring vast search spaces for new materials, to finding ways to process and understand growing amounts of data and literature. Modern deep learning techniques are uniquely suited to address these challenges and reduce the time required for new discoveries.
To help realize the ambitious vision of the Genesis mission, Google and DOE are partnering to leverage AI and the advanced computing revolution to support the administration’s goal of dramatically expanding the productivity and impact of American research and innovation within 10 years. We see this as the beginning of a lasting partnership at AI for Science, and we look forward to growing and expanding in the coming months and years.
Putting advanced AI tools into the hands of American scientists
Starting today, Google DeepMind, along with Google Cloud’s AI Collaborative Scientists, will offer accelerated access to cutting-edge AI for Science models and agent tools for scientists at all 17 DOE national laboratories. AI Collaborator is a multi-agent virtual scientific collaborator built on Gemini, trained on Google’s world-class TPUs. The system is designed to help scientists integrate vast amounts of information to generate new hypotheses and research proposals, accelerating the pace of scientific and biomedical discovery.
AI collaborators are already demonstrating its potential across a variety of biomedical applications. This paper proposes new drug repurposing candidates for liver fibrosis, which were validated through laboratory experiments and predicted complex antimicrobial resistance mechanisms consistent with experiments before publication, demonstrating the potential to accelerate hypothesis development from years to days. It is also showing early promise in additional fields such as physics, chemistry, and computer science.
In early 2026, we plan to expand the National Laboratory Express Access program to include:
AlphaEvolve – a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms that has incredible promise for applications in many areas of computing and mathematics, and we believe has the potential to be transformative in materials science, drug discovery, energy, and many more fields. For example, AlphaEvolve has increased the efficiency of Google’s data centers, chip design, and AI training processes, including training the large language models underlying AlphaEvolve itself. AlphaGenome – An AI model that helps scientists better understand the non-coding parts of DNA, accelerate research in genome biology, and improve understanding of disease. With more data on plant genomes, AlphaGenome could be expanded to improve crop resistance and other applications including sustainable biofuels and advanced biomaterials. WeatherNext – A family of state-of-the-art weather prediction models. Our partnership with the US National Hurricane Center already supports cyclone forecasts and warnings, helping communities prepare for disasters early.
DOE and all national laboratories also have access to Gemini for Government. It combines the best of Google’s AI-optimized and certified commercial cloud with industry-leading Gemini models, including Gemini 3, the most intelligent model with cutting-edge inference capabilities and multimodal understanding.
We’re excited to see what America’s top researchers will be able to do with our frontier AI models and agent tools.
A history of cooperation for the advancement of science
We’ve seen what’s possible when industry-leading technology builds on national lab research. Fundamental research on the Protein Data Bank by DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory was critical to the development of AlphaFold, an AI system that can predict the 3D structure of proteins, and its development was recognized through the joint award of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper. The AlphaFold protein database is currently used by more than 3 million scientists in more than 190 countries to accelerate research on everything from effective malaria vaccines to breakthrough gene therapies.
Looking to the future
Through the Genesis mission, we will also accelerate America’s scientific leadership by exploring research collaborations with national laboratories in areas such as fusion energy, new materials discovery, and earth science.
The challenges facing our world, from energy to disease to security, require unprecedented scientific innovation. We believe that by combining human ingenuity with advanced AI capabilities, we can help American scientists achieve discoveries that seemed impossible just a few years ago.
