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December 19, 2025
Google DeepMind & DOE Partner on Genesis: AI for Science
Google DeepMind supports U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis: a national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discovery.
TL;DR
- Google DeepMind is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy for the Genesis Mission to accelerate scientific discovery using AI.
- The initiative will mobilize 17 National Laboratories, industry, and academia to build an integrated discovery platform.
- Google DeepMind will provide an accelerated access program for scientists at DOE National Laboratories to AI for Science models and agentic tools, including AI co-scientist built on Gemini.
- AI co-scientist has demonstrated potential in validating drug repurposing candidates and predicting antimicrobial resistance.
- Future expansions of the program will include AlphaEvolve (coding agent), AlphaGenome (DNA research), and WeatherNext (weather forecasting models).
- Google DeepMind previously collaborated with Brookhaven National Laboratory, leading to the development of AlphaFold, which contributed to a Nobel Prize.
- The partnership aims to combine human ingenuity with AI to achieve unprecedented scientific discoveries.
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