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In February 2025, Google Research described an AI co-scientist built on Gemini 2.0. The research prototype accepts a goal from a scientist and produces hypotheses, research overviews, and proposed experimental protocols. It uses several language-model agents to criticize and revise candidate ideas before showing them to the researcher.
The name can be misleading. The system did not independently operate laboratories or publish papers without people. Scientists supplied the goals and could add seed ideas or feedback. Human collaborators selected proposals and performed the reported wet-lab validation. The project was an experiment in assisted hypothesis generation, not a replacement for the rest of the scientific process.
Its technical contribution was a structured search over possible hypotheses. Instead of asking one model for one answer, the system spent additional inference-time computation generating alternatives, comparing them, and refining the stronger candidates. Google evaluated this design on research questions and three biomedical case studies.