Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.
Apr 3
Apr 1
Building better AI benchmarks: How many raters are enough?
Google Research studied trade-offs between evaluation item counts and annotators per item in Forest vs Tree: The (N, K) Trade-off in Reproducible ML Evaluation. Common counts of one, three or five annotators are often insufficient; reflecting human disagreement frequently requires more than ten.
Mar 31
Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly
Google Quantum AI published a white paper saying future quantum computers would require fewer qubits and gates than previously estimated to break the elliptic-curve cryptography protecting cryptocurrencies.
Mar 29
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era
Google DeepMind is transforming the mouse pointer into a context-aware AI partner. Move beyond the friction of traditional prompting with intuitive AI collaboration in Chrome and beyond.
Mar 25
Vibe Coding XR: Accelerating AI + XR prototyping with XR Blocks and Gemini
Google released Vibe Coding XR, combining Gemini with the XR Blocks framework based on WebXR, three.js and LiteRT.js to turn natural language prompts directly into physically aware Android XR apps, reportedly in under 60 seconds.
TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
Google Research released TurboQuant, compressing the KV cache to three bits without loss of model accuracy or training and fine-tuning, alongside the QJL and PolarQuant methods.
Mapping the modern world: How S2Vec learns the language of our cities
S2Vec uses S2 Geometry partitions and rasterised features to turn buildings and roads into multilayer images, learning general embeddings with masked autoencoding (MAE). It beats SATCLIP and GEOCLIP on zero-shot geographic socioeconomic extrapolation such as US population density and median income, but needs improvement on tree cover and elevation.
Mar 18
Google Research at The Check Up: from healthcare innovation to real-world care settings
Google Research announced healthcare AI advances at The Check Up, including its Personal Health Agent (PHA) research with Fitbit, which found it supported long-term health better than single-task apps.
Improving breast cancer screening workflows with machine learning
The AIMS collaboration between Google Research and several NHS organisations published two companion studies in Nature Cancer evaluating an AI breast cancer detection system within NHS screening workflows.
Mar 17
Testing LLMs on superconductivity research questions
Google and Cornell published a PNAS study asking GPT-4o, Perplexity, Claude 3.5, Gemini Advanced Pro 1.5, NotebookLM and a custom RAG system 67 expert superconductivity questions. Twelve international experts blindly assessed balance, comprehensiveness, concision, evidence, image relevance and qualitative feedback.
Mar 12
Protecting cities with AI-driven flash flood forecasting
Google introduced urban flash-flood forecasts on Flood Hub, using a new AI approach to predict risks in urban areas up to 24 hours ahead.
Introducing Groundsource: Turning news reports into data with Gemini
Google Research launched Groundsource, using Gemini to extract structured historical disaster data from global news. Its first open dataset contains 2.6 million urban flash-flood records across over 150 countries, spanning 2000 to the present.
Exploring the feasibility of conversational diagnostic AI in a real-world clinical study
Google Research and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conducted a prospective, single-centre feasibility study in which AMIE held text consultations with patients before outpatient primary care visits, under live physician supervision by video.
Mar 7
WAXAL: A large-scale open resource for African language speech technology
Google Research released WAXAL, a large open speech dataset initially covering 27 sub-Saharan African languages spoken by more than 100 million people, under CC-BY-4.0.