Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
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Google commits to providing American researchers with $40 million in AI services and cloud credits for the Genesis Mission — a national initiative to double the pace of scientific discovery using AI.
The contributions include access to Google's AI tools such as AlphaFold 3 (for predicting protein structures), AlphaEvolve (a coding agent), and Gemini for Government for tens of thousands of researchers at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. Researchers are already using these tools to accelerate discoveries — for example, one research group has reduced microscope calibration from 90 minutes to 13 minutes.
By deploying Gemini in our instruments, we cut microscope calibration time from over 90 minutes to about 13 minutes (eight times faster) and reduced the manual steps needed to focus an image from as many as 50 down to two.
Vibekollen prepared this summary with AI from the original publication. The content belongs to Google DeepMind.
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