A New Era of Discovery: Google Research at I/O 2026

Google Research · 1 month ago

Google announced Gemini for Science at I/O 2026, a suite of AI tools including ERA (a research coding system), Co-Scientist (a multi-agent AI partner), and Computational Discovery to accelerate scientific research across domains. The company deployed these tools in real-world scenarios, including predicting hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses, forecasting seasonal runoff in California, and solving previously unsolved open research problems in mathematics and physics. These AI systems enable researchers to explore multiple hypotheses and conduct complex analyses in minutes or hours rather than months, fundamentally changing how scientific discovery is conducted.