Co-Scientist
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Co-Scientist (model) is a multi-agent AI system released by Google DeepMind and built with Gemini to generate, debate, and refine scientific hypotheses across fields. Recent coverage describes its use in research workflows spanning biology and medicine, including proposing genetic factors linked to reverse cellular aging, narrowing infectious-disease molecular targets, and helping teams synthesize fragmented literature into testable hypotheses for conditions such as ALS, liver disease, and aging-related stress responses. At I/O 2026, Co-Scientist was presented as part of Gemini for Science alongside other tools aimed at accelerating discovery through computation and literature verification.
Updated 10 September 2026
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Latest developments
May 2026
Google DeepMind releases Gemini for Science suite with tools for accelerated scientific research Product launch
Calico Life Sciences uses Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist AI tool to advance cellular aging research through hypothesis generation and genetic screening Research publication
Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist AI tool demonstrates efficacy across multiple biomedical research applications Research publication
- A New Era of Discovery: Google Research at I/O 2026
- Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging
- Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery
- Finding the molecular switches behind new infectious diseases
- Opening new paths in aging research
- Accelerating discovery of liver disease mechanisms
- Uniting biological toolkits for a new approach to ALS
- Uncovering repurposed medicines to fight liver fibrosis
- Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research
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Products & technology
- Google develops this model · 2 sources
- Integrated with Gemini · 1 source
- Deploys Ritu Raman · 1 source
- Derived from Gemini · 1 source
- Stanford University deploys this model · 1 source
- Clare Bryant deploys this model · 1 source
- Google DeepMind develops this model · 1 source
- Calico Life Sciences deploys this model · 1 source
- Omar Abudayyeh deploys this model · 1 source
- Jonathan Gootenberg deploys this model · 1 source