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Gemini Robotics ER-1.6 enhances reasoning to help robots navigate real-world tasks.

For robots to be truly helpful, they need to understand the physical world like we do. That’s why today we're introducing Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, an upgrade to our reasoning-first model that enables robots to understand their environments with unprecedented precision. By enhancing spatial logic and multi-view understanding, we’re bringing a new level of autonomy to the next generation of physical agents. This model specializes in capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning and success detection. We’re also helping robots with instrument reading, a new capability to enable robots to read complex gauges and sight glasses — a capability discovered through collaboration with Boston Dynamics. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is our safest robotics model to date, demonstrating superior compliance with safety policies on adversarial spatial reasoning tasks. Starting today, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is available to developers via the…

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24d ago

The latest AI news we announced in March 2026

The latest AI news we announced in March 2026 For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news. Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from March. This March, we focused on making AI feel even more helpful to your day-to-day world. We introduced updates to help Gemini understand your specific context — from your travel plans and work projects to your shopping preferences — giving you the option to turn your devices into proactive helpers. Whether you’re vibe coding…

24dResearch#gemini#codingby The Keyword Team

39d ago

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery and help solve some of humanity’s most pressing problems. But it can be difficult to know how close we are to this key milestone, because there’s a lack of empirical tools for evaluating systems’ general intelligence. Tracking progress toward AGI will require a wide range of methods and approaches, and we believe cognitive science provides one important piece of the puzzle. That’s why today, we’re releasing a new paper, “Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy,” that presents a scientific foundation for understanding the cognitive capabilities of AI systems. Alongside the paper, we are partnering with Kaggle to launch a hackathon, inviting the research community to help build the evaluations needed to put this framework into practice. Deconstructing general intelligence Our framework…

39dResearchby Oran Kelly

39d ago

Broadening advanced AI education across Africa

Broadening advanced AI education across Africa AI is driving scientific discoveries and research breakthroughs, but its progress depends on a global community. To bridge the gap between talent and opportunity, Google DeepMind is launching additional courses of its AI Research Foundations curriculum: advanced AI education designed for the next generation of technical learners across Africa. Hands-on experience with generative AI models The courses, developed with pedagogy experts and academics at University College London — and available at no cost on Google Skills — give learners the opportunity to build and fine-tune a language model from the ground up. Google.org is supporting the curriculum’s rollout in African classrooms by providing funding for lecturer training and instructional toolkits. The curriculum, already serving thousands of users globally, moves beyond AI literacy, providing technical university students and community learners with a deep, applied understanding…

39dInfraby Leslie Yeh

44d ago

Platform 37 and The AI Exchange: new spaces for AI innovation and discovery

Platform 37 and The AI Exchange: new spaces for AI innovation and discovery The UK is a center of extraordinary technological innovation with incredible talent and world-class institutions. Later this year, Google will build on this heritage by establishing our landmark King’s Cross building in London alongside a historic European railway hub. Today, we’re unveiling the building’s name, Platform 37, and plans for The AI Exchange, a new public space dedicated to deepening understanding of artificial intelligence. Platform 37: A hub for AI innovation The name is a nod to the building’s location next to King’s Cross station and to “Move 37,” a pivotal play made by DeepMind’s AI system AlphaGo in a now-legendary 2016 match against Go world champion Lee Sae Dol. Go is incredibly complex, with more possible board configurations than the number of atoms in the known…

44dby Demis Hassabis

51d ago

The latest AI news we announced in February

The latest AI news we announced in February For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news. Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from February. For us, February was about global impact. At the AI Impact Summit in India, we demonstrated how our ongoing breakthroughs in AI are now solving real-world challenges for people everywhere — and we launched new partnerships and investments to make sure everyone benefits. We see AI as an enabling technology that can help people…

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53d ago

Create new worlds in Project Genie with these 4 tips

Create new worlds in Project Genie with these 4 tips We recently introduced Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets you create, explore and remix your own interactive worlds. With Project Genie, you can develop worlds with characters and environments, then navigate them in real time, like by journeying to a new, imaginary planet or diving underwater with sea creatures. Project Genie is currently available to Google AI Ultra Subscribers in the U.S. over 18, with plans to expand further. You can prompt Project Genie with just text, or with text and images. If you’re ready to bring your imaginary world to life, here are some tips on how to prompt Project Genie as well as features to try. 1. Describe the environment in detail Start by writing out what kind of environment you want — for example, you…

53dResearchby Molly McHugh-Johnson

59d ago

Ask a Techspert: What’s a world model?

Ask a Techspert: What’s a world model? We recently introduced Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets you create, explore and remix your own interactive worlds. Project Genie is powered by what’s called a “world model.” It’s currently available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. over 18 with plans to expand further. Now, you’ve probably heard of large language models, machine learning models, image generation models and so on…but “world model” might be a new one. To help explain the concept, we sat down with Googlers Shlomi Fruchter and Jack Parker-Holder. Congratulations on the launch of Project Genie! What were your roles on the team? Shlomi: Jack and I co-lead Genie development. I mostly focus on our next-generation video and world models and working with the team to research new improvements. Jack: I'm a research scientist as…

59dResearch#multimodalby Molly McHugh-Johnson

72d ago

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering Today, we’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode, built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering. We updated Gemini 3 Deep Think in close partnership with scientists and researchers to tackle tough research challenges — where problems often lack clear guardrails or a single correct solution and data is often messy or incomplete. By blending deep scientific knowledge with everyday engineering utility, Deep Think moves beyond abstract theory to drive practical applications. The new Deep Think is now available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers and, for the first time, we’re also making Deep Think available via the Gemini API to select researchers, engineers and enterprises. Express interest in early access here. Here…

72dResearch#geminiby The Deep Think team

80d ago

The latest AI news we announced in January

The latest AI news we announced in January For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news. Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from January. In January, we moved AI toward a new era of Personal Intelligence: making products like Search, Chrome and the Gemini app more proactive than ever. Whether it’s Chrome’s “auto browse” handling your complex chores or Gmail surfacing what matters most, these new personalization features are focused on anticipating your needs, understanding your context and…

80dResearch#geminiby Keyword Team

82d ago

Advancing AI benchmarking with Game Arena

Advancing AI benchmarking with Game Arena Chess is a game of perfect information. The real world is not. Last year, Google DeepMind partnered with Kaggle to launch Game Arena, an independent, public benchmarking platform where AI models compete in strategic games. We started with chess to measure reasoning and strategic planning. But in the real world, decisions are rarely based on complete information. This is why we are now expanding Kaggle Game Arena with two new game benchmarks to test frontier models on social deduction and calculated risk. Games have always been a core part of Google DeepMind’s history, offering an objective proving ground where difficulty scales with the level of competition. As AI systems become more general, mastering diverse games demonstrates their proficiency across distinct cognitive skills. Beyond measuring performance, games can also serve as controlled sandbox environments to…

82dResearch#benchmarkby Oran Kelly

86d ago

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds In August, we previewed Genie 3, a general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environments. Even in this early form, trusted testers were able to create an impressive range of fascinating worlds and experiences, and uncovered entirely new ways to use it. The next step is to broaden access through a dedicated, interactive prototype focused on immersive world creation. Starting today, we're rolling out access to Project Genie for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S (18+). This experimental research prototype lets users create, explore and remix their own interactive worlds. How we’re advancing world models A world model simulates the dynamics of an environment, predicting how they evolve and how actions affect them. While Google DeepMind has a history of agents for specific environments like Chess or Go, building AGI requires…

86dResearchby Suz Chambers

86d ago

Hear more about interactive world models in our latest podcast.

The latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast focuses on Genie 3, a real-time, interactive world model. Host Logan Kilpatrick chats with Diego Rivas, Shlomi Fruchter, and Jack Parker-Holder from the Project Genie team to discuss the evolution from passive video generation to playable, simulated environments. They dive deep into the technical challenges of maintaining world consistency and memory, the experience of “stepping inside” a 2D image, and the vision for world models as a critical training ground for future AI agents. Watch the episode below, or listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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88d ago

In our latest podcast, hear how the “Smoke Jumpers” team brings Gemini to billions of people.

Bringing Gemini to billions of users requires a massive, coordinated infrastructure effort. In the latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast, host Logan Kilpatrick sits down with Emanuel Taropa to discuss the "Smokejumpers,” a nimble, cross-functional team of engineers and product experts that handle Google's most complex and critical AI launches. In the episode, they explore the technical connective tissue that makes Gemini 3 possible, the advantages of Google’s TPU strategy, and the high-intensity culture that builds and ships world-class AI models at scale. Hear the full conversation below, or listen to the Google AI: Release Notes podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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89d ago

How animators and AI researchers made ‘Dear Upstairs Neighbors’

How animators and AI researchers made ‘Dear Upstairs Neighbors’ Today, our animated short film, “Dear Upstairs Neighbors,” previews at the Sundance Film Festival. The film will be showcased at the Sundance Institute’s Story Forum, a space focused on artist-first tools and technologies supporting visual storytelling. “Dear Upstairs Neighbors” is the story of a young woman, Ada, who is desperate for a good night’s sleep but kept awake by her exceedingly noisy neighbors. As she struggles to imagine what could be causing the cacophony upstairs, reality drifts into fantasy, and an epic battle for peace and sanity ensues. The film is a collaboration between animation veterans, including director and Pixar alum Connie He, and researchers at Google DeepMind, united by a shared goal of exploring how generative tools might fit in with artists' creative processes. Director Connie He developed the story…

89dResearchby Sarah Rumbley

89d ago

We’re announcing the 12 recipients of our AI for Science fund

We’re announcing the 12 recipients of our AI for Science fund Science is the cornerstone of human progress. Yet, while the world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex, the pace of new discovery is actually slowing. To help overcome this, Google.org created a $20 million AI for Science fund to support academic, nonprofit and startup organizations using AI to tackle the world’s most complex scientific challenges. We're equipping researchers with the right resources to use AI to unlock the impossible and achieve in years what used to take decades. Today, we’re announcing the twelve recipients of the AI for Science fund. These teams aren't just using AI to synthesize and process data; they are using it to break through the most significant obstacles across scientific domains like health, agriculture and biodiversity to turn discoveries into real-world solutions. Each of these organizations…

89dReleaseby Maggie Johnson

117d ago

The latest AI news we announced in December

The latest AI news we announced in December For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news. Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from December. December is usually a time for reflection, and looking ahead. That’s why this month we’ve been focused on taking frontier intelligence out of the lab and putting it into your hands in ways that actually matter for your day-to-day. Whether it’s the lightning speed of Gemini 3 Flash helping you tackle tasks in seconds,…

117dModel#geminiby Keyword Team

123d ago

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 2025 has been a year of extraordinary progress in research. With artificial intelligence, we can see its trajectory shifting from a tool to a utility: from something people use to something they can put to work. If 2024 was about laying the multimodal foundations for this era, 2025 was the year AI began to really think, act and explore the world alongside us. With quantum computing, we made progress towards real-world applications. And across the board, we helped turn research into reality, with more capable and useful products and tools making a positive impact on people's lives today. Here’s a look back at some of the breakthroughs, products and scientific milestones that defined the work of Google, Google DeepMind and Google Research in a year of relentless progress. Delivering…

123dResearch#geminiby James Manyika

128d ago

Watch a podcast discussion about Gemini 3 and the future of Search.

The latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast looks at how we are integrating our most capable frontier models directly into Search. Host Logan Kilpatrick talks with Robby Stein and Rhiannon Bell about how Gemini 3 uses advanced reasoning and coding capabilities to solve complex user questions — creating everything from physics simulations to live graphs — and the technical work behind bringing these features to millions of users. Watch the episode below, or listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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129d ago

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed Today, we're expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. With this release, we’re making Gemini 3’s next-generation intelligence accessible to everyone across Google products. Last month, we kicked off Gemini 3 with Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Deep Think mode, and the response has been incredible. Since launch day, we have been processing over 1T tokens per day on our API. We’ve seen you use Gemini 3 to vibe code simulations to learn about complex topics, build and design interactive games and understand all types of multimodal content. With Gemini 3, we introduced frontier performance across complex reasoning, multimodal and vision understanding and agentic and vibe coding tasks. Gemini 3 Flash retains…

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