Research@ 2026: Novel capabilities and intelligence

Oct 14, 2026

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We’re sharing our latest milestones and some of the advanced AI capabilities and intelligence that we’re putting in the hands of experts.

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Technology is supercharging scientific discovery and improving people's lives. At Google Research, we’re pioneering breakthroughs across domains and bringing our research to reality to benefit people everywhere.

Today at Research@ in Mountain View, we’re sharing our latest milestones and some of the advanced AI capabilities and intelligence that we’re putting in the hands of experts. Our latest breakthroughs help drive progress on the world’s most pressing challenges including healthcare, crisis resilience, and beyond. This momentum builds on our recent announcements from AMIE in the clinic, to Earth AI for public health, to Project Suncatcher in orbit.

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10 ways we're amplifying human ingenuity

From planetary intelligence to advanced medical workflows, we’re putting capabilities once out of reach in the hands of people worldwide.
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AI agents for our planet's biggest challenges

We have evolved a Geospatial Reasoning agent from an early concept into a much more capable, experimental system.
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Analyzing technical documents with Deep Review

Following successful deployments across 15,000+ submissions at STOC, ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR, Deep Review is launching publicly.
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More proactive global public health with Google Earth AI

We're helping public health leaders overcome reporting lags, forecast disease outbreaks, and deliver care to vulnerable communities.
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The Lancet study: AI could aid patient-doctor relationships

A peer-reviewed study in The Lancet evaluates Google's AMIE medical AI in a real-world primary care clinic.
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Applying technology to understand and treat disease

In collaboration with scientists and research partners, Google is helping to make disease more detectable, treatable, and preventable.
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Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

We’re asking what’s possible for health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity.
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Google's AI ranks #1 for predicting flu hospitalizations

Google’s science AI model was the best at forecasting flu-related hospital admissions, the Centers for Disease Control announced.
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Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space

Learn about Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.
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Unlocking Earth AI’s planetary geospatial foundation models

With Google Earth AI’s Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM), we can address the data gaps and temporal reporting lags of existing epidemiological workflows.
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