Google AI: Release Notes GDM’s Pushmeet Kohli on solving science's biggest challenges with AI
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Sep 15, 2025 
Pushmeet Kohli, Head of Science and Strategic Initiatives at Google DeepMind, discusses the groundbreaking intersection of AI and science. He dives into transformative models like AlphaFold, showcasing their potential to revolutionize scientific discovery. Kohli emphasizes how AI can democratize research through tools like AI Co-scientist, enabling wider participation. The conversation also touches on the collaborative efforts behind these innovations and their significant impact on solving complex challenges in mathematics and biology.
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Three Recent Alpha Launches
- Alpha Genome deciphers the human genome and Alpha Earth builds semantic geospatial representations.
- Alpha Evolve optimizes compute and even sped up Gemini training while saving data‑center resources.
Target Truly Transformative Problems
- DeepMind targets problems that are currently impossible for humans or existing tools to solve.
- The team focuses on transformative, feasible problems requiring multidisciplinary AI, engineering, data, and compute.
AI Solves Previously Intractable Science
- Some scientific tasks are outside human reasoning and extremely costly historically.
- AlphaFold reduced multi‑year, costly protein structure determination to seconds for cents.