Google Launches Gemini for Science at I/O: Co-Scientist, AlphaEvolve, Science Skills
Google launched Gemini for Science at Google I/O, built in collaboration with over 100 academic institutions, with a tester community spanning PhD students to Nobel laureates. The platform includes three experimental tools: Co-Scientist (hypothesis generation and refinement), Computational Discovery (AlphaEvolve + ERA running thousands of code variations for novel modeling approaches), and Literature Insights (NotebookLM-powered paper synthesis for identifying research gaps). A separate Science Skills bundle integrates 30+ major life science models and databases with the Antigravity agentic platform. Sign-up at labs.google/science.
Why It Matters
Deploying hypothesis generation and automated computational discovery to researchers at scale moves Google from AI assistant to AI research partner. AlphaEvolve's ability to run thousands of simultaneous modeling experiments collapses timelines for computational discovery across life sciences.