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- Google Research unveiled three major projects at its annual Research@ event in Mountain View: Google Earth AI for planetary monitoring, DeepSomatic and Cell2Sentence-Scale for precision medicine, and Quantum Echoes advancing quantum computing.
- Quantum Echoes, running on Google's Willow chip, simulated complex physics problems 13,000 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer, completing tasks in hours that would otherwise take years.
- DeepSomatic, an AI tool published in Nature Biotechnology, identified novel genetic variants driving cancer at unprecedented resolution, while the 27-billion-parameter Cell2Sentence-Scale model discovered new therapy targets by analyzing single-cell data.
- Google Earth AI expanded global riverine flood forecasting to 2 billion people across 150 countries, up from 700 million in 100 nations, harnessing satellite data and advanced AI models for crisis prediction and response.
- Three Google scientists, Michel Devoret, John Martinis, and John Clarke, received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their seminal work on superconducting qubits, laying the groundwork for today's quantum computing advances.
Impact
These announcements solidify Google’s lead in high-impact scientific research, bridging foundational breakthroughs and real-world solutions. Google’s faster-than-supercomputer quantum advances and scalable AI tools set it apart from competitors focused mainly on scaling neural networks. This marks a strategic shift in global tech research, setting ambitious expectations for real-world quantum and biomedical applications within five years.
