Google announced that it will provide direct access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models to up to 200 European researchers. The announcement was made at a Dublin artificial intelligence summit by Google DeepMind and Google Cloud, the cloud division of Alphabet.
As part of the initiative, the company is offering a total of $3 million in compute credits to participating research teams. Researchers selected for the program will be able to use scientific tools and foundation models including AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve and AlphaEarth Foundations.
According to Google, the aim of the program is to accelerate European innovation and strengthen research competitiveness by directly supplying infrastructure resources and state-of-the-art technologies. The company noted that the collaboration should help researchers tackle complex problems more effectively, such as forecasting extreme weather events or mapping molecular structures.
The Reuters news agency is cited as the source for the announcement. Google may provide further information later about application procedures and selection criteria beyond the initial summit disclosure.
Why this matters
The move could be significant for widening access to research infrastructure in Europe: large models and the necessary compute capacity are costly resources that many institutions cannot readily afford. Direct access and compute credits can speed up both basic and applied research, particularly in fields where computational resources are a limiting factor.
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