Results for "Google DeepMind"

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Artificial scientists

AI companies including Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic are developing AI systems to act as autonomous researchers and co-scientists that can generate hypotheses, design experiments, and conduct scientific research with minimal human oversight. Recent breakthroughs include OpenAI connecting GPT-5 to automated biological labs to iteratively propose and test experiments, achieving a 40% cost reduction in protein synthesis, while researchers at Stanford created a "virtual lab" of AI agents that designed new antibody fragments against SARS-CoV-2. However, research suggests that widespread AI adoption in science may inadvertently reduce scientific diversity by concentrating research on data-rich, established topics while leaving fewer scientists to explore problems less amenable to AI analysis.

MIT Technology Review AI14h ago

Agent orchestration

The article examines the emerging field of multi-agent AI systems, where multiple AI agents coordinate to complete complex tasks beyond individual agent capabilities. It discusses applications ranging from coding (Anthropic's Claude Code) to general productivity tools (Claude Cowork, OpenAI's Codex, Perplexity's Computer) and scientific research (Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist), while highlighting both the potential to transform knowledge work and the risks of deploying unpredictable LLMs in critical infrastructure.

MIT Technology Review AI14h ago

Antioch raises funding to bring 'software speed' to robot development

Antioch, a startup founded in May 2025 by former Tesla Autopilot and Google DeepMind engineers, raised $8.5 million to develop cloud-based simulation tools for autonomous robot and system validation. The platform aims to eliminate expensive physical testing by leveraging simulation engines like NVIDIA Isaac Sim and generative AI techniques, allowing robotics teams to conduct testing and validation at software speed rather than hardware speed.

Robotics Business Review5d ago

World models

World models—AI systems that represent and simulate the physical world—are emerging as a key area of focus for major AI labs and researchers, with Google DeepMind, Stanford's World Labs, and OpenAI all investing in the technology. Proponents argue world models are essential for overcoming LLM limitations and advancing robotics applications, from delivery robots to healthcare assistants, with early efforts including 3D environment generation and integration into intelligent agents.

MIT Technology Review AI14h ago

Boston Dynamics and Google Deepmind are using Gemini to make Spot smarter

Boston Dynamics announced a partnership with Google Cloud and Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini and Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 into its Orbit AIVI-Learning platform for Spot and Orbit robots. The integration enhances visual inspection and reasoning capabilities for industrial environments, enabling better asset monitoring, safety checks, and complex task planning with improved accuracy and real-time learning. DeepMind also released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a reasoning-first model designed specifically for robotic applications including visual understanding, task planning, and tool integration.

Robotics Business Review4/14/2026

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models

Google DeepMind introduces Gemma 4, a family of open-source language models ranging from 2B to 31B parameters, built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows. The models achieve state-of-the-art performance for their sizes, with the 31B variant ranking #3 on Arena AI's leaderboard, and are optimized to run efficiently on devices from smartphones to workstations while supporting multimodal inputs, long context windows (up to 256K tokens), and 140+ languages.

DeepMind Blog4/2/2026

Protecting people from harmful manipulation

Researchers have released new findings and a validated toolkit for measuring AI's potential for harmful manipulation—specifically its ability to alter human thought and behavior deceptively. The study involved over 10,000 participants across multiple countries and found that AI's manipulative effectiveness varies significantly by domain, with health topics showing the least susceptibility to harmful influence.

DeepMind Blog3/25/2026

Industrial Robotics Just Became Big Tech's Best Friend

Agile Robots' partnership with Google DeepMind marks the latest in an accelerating trend: AI giants racing to embed their foundation models into industrial automation. This isn't just about smart robots—it's about controlling the physical layer of the economy.

Creative Robotics3/24/2026Original

Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind

Agile Robots, a Munich-based industrial robotics company, has announced a strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models into its robotic solutions for manufacturing, automotive, data centers, and logistics. The partnership will involve deploying and fine-tuning AI-powered robots in industrial settings while collecting data to improve the underlying Gemini models, positioning Agile Robots among the latest hardware companies collaborating with DeepMind on physical AI applications.

TechCrunch Robotics3/24/2026

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

Google DeepMind released a cognitive taxonomy framework for measuring progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) based on cognitive science principles, identifying 10 key cognitive abilities needed for general intelligence in AI systems. The company is launching a Kaggle hackathon with a $200,000 prize pool to invite researchers to design evaluations for five cognitive abilities where measurement gaps are largest: learning, metacognition, attention, executive functions, and social cognition.

DeepMind Blog3/17/2026

Google brings Gemini-powered content creation tools to Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive

Google is rolling out Gemini-powered content creation features across its Workspace apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive), enabling users to generate document drafts, build spreadsheets, create presentations, and query files using natural language prompts. The features began rolling out in beta on March 10 for Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, with some capabilities leveraging Google DeepMind and Google Research technology.

Engadget3/10/2026

Qualcomm's partnership with Neura Robotics is just the beginning

German robotics startup Neura Robotics has partnered with Qualcomm to develop humanoid and general-purpose robots using Qualcomm's Dragonwing Robotics IQ10 processors and Neura's Neuraverse simulation platform. The collaboration represents a broader trend of robotics startups partnering with major tech companies to accelerate physical AI development, similar to Boston Dynamics' partnership with Google DeepMind.

TechCrunch Robotics3/9/2026

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Google DeepMind has launched Nano Banana 2, a new AI image generation model that combines advanced capabilities from Nano Banana Pro with the speed of Gemini Flash. The model features improved world knowledge, precision text rendering, subject consistency, and is rolling out across Google products including Gemini, Search, and Ads.

DeepMind Blog2/26/2026

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

Google DeepMind researchers are calling for rigorous evaluation of large language models' moral behavior, publishing work in Nature that challenges whether chatbots demonstrate genuine moral reasoning or merely mimic expected responses. The research highlights concerning vulnerabilities in LLMs, including tendency to flip positions when questioned, change answers based on formatting, and alter responses to subtle presentation changes, demonstrating that apparent moral competence may be 'virtue signaling' rather than genuine understanding.

MIT Technology Review AI2/18/2026

Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education

Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education

DeepMind Blog2/17/2026

Google's Project Genie lets you create your own 3D interactive worlds

Google DeepMind has made its Genie 3 world model publicly available through Project Genie, allowing users to generate and interact with 3D environments using AI. The tool offers three interaction modes—World Sketching, exploration, and remixing—and generates dynamic, interactive worlds that respond to user movement, though it is not a full game engine and outputs are limited to 60-second sequences at 720p/24fps.

Engadget1/30/2026

Google DeepMind's AlphaGo Decodes the Genome a Million 'Letters' at a Time

Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome, an AI tool that predicts how DNA mutations affect gene expression by analyzing up to one million DNA letters simultaneously across 11 types of genomic mutations. Since its launch, approximately 3,000 scientists from 160 countries have used the model to study diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, with the tool now available for free non-commercial use through an online portal.

SingularityHub1/29/2026

Google DeepMind Introduces Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash

Google DeepMind has introduced agentic vision capabilities to Gemini 3 Flash, combining visual reasoning with Python code execution to enhance image analysis and enable active investigations. This advancement allows the AI model to not only analyze images but also take actions based on visual understanding.

AI Business1/29/2026

Google's Project Genie lets you generate your own interactive worlds

Google DeepMind has launched Project Genie, making its Genie 3 world model available to the public through Google's AI Ultra subscription ($250/month). The system generates interactive 3D environments from text descriptions and allows users to explore them in real-time, offering three interaction modes including world sketching, exploration, and remixing of existing worlds.

Engadget1/29/2026

AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos

Leaders of major AI labs—OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic—engaged in public criticism of each other at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with disagreements over monetization strategies, regulatory approaches, and corporate competition. The dispute highlights tensions between the three frontier AI companies as they compete for enterprise customers and influence over AI policy and safety narratives.

The Verge AI1/23/2026

This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 10)

This weekly tech roundup covers several robotics and AI developments, including Google DeepMind partnering with Boston Dynamics to enhance humanoid robots for factory automation, research showing AI models may converge on similar ways to encode reality, and industry analysis suggesting humanoid robots remain overhyped despite billions in startup funding. The article also touches on AI coding assistants reaching a quality plateau and Meta's nuclear power investments to fuel AI infrastructure.

SingularityHub1/10/2026

Boston Dynamics Unveils Humanoid Robot Atlas at CES

Boston Dynamics unveiled its humanoid robot Atlas at CES and announced a partnership with Google DeepMind to enhance the robot's cognitive capabilities. The collaboration aims to integrate advanced AI technology into Boston Dynamics' robotics platform.

AI Business1/7/2026

Hyundai and Boston Dynamics unveil humanoid robot Atlas at CES

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time at CES 2026, showcasing a robot capable of walking, moving autonomously, and performing various physical tasks. The company announced a production version will be deployed by 2028 at Hyundai's electric vehicle manufacturing facility in Georgia, and revealed a new partnership with Google DeepMind to supply AI technology for its robots.

Phys.org Robotics1/6/2026

Deepening our partnership with the UK AI Security Institute

Google DeepMind and UK AI Security Institute (AISI) strengthen collaboration on critical AI safety and security research

DeepMind Blog12/11/2025

Google DeepMind supports U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis: a national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discovery

Google DeepMind has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis, a national initiative aimed at accelerating scientific discovery and innovation through AI. The collaboration focuses on leveraging AI to advance scientific research and address complex challenges across energy and related domains.

DeepMind Blog11/24/2025

We’re expanding our presence in Singapore to advance AI in the Asia-Pacific region

Google DeepMind is expanding its presence in Singapore by opening a new research lab to advance AI development in the Asia-Pacific region, building on a more than doubling of its APAC team over the past year. The expansion focuses on foundational research in linguistic and cultural inclusivity, advancing Gemini capabilities, and collaborating with governments, businesses, and academic institutions across the region to develop AI solutions tailored to diverse regional needs.

DeepMind Blog11/18/2025

Google DeepMind at NeurIPS 2024

Advancing adaptive AI agents, empowering 3D scene creation, and innovating LLM training for a smarter, safer future

DeepMind Blog12/5/2024

Google DeepMind at ICML 2024

Exploring AGI, the challenges of scaling and the future of multimodal generative AI

DeepMind Blog7/19/2024