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Google gives 200 EU scientists frontier models
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European researchers access to frontier models plus $3 million in compute credits under the EU's RAISE program.
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What happened: Google DeepMind and Google Cloud said they will give up to 200 European researchers direct access to frontier models along with $3 million in compute credits. The package includes Google’s science-focused models, among them AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve and AlphaEarth Foundations. The effort is tied to the European Union’s RAISE initiative for AI in science, and the post is authored by Maureen Costello, vice president for the UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa at Google Cloud.
Context: European scientists have repeatedly flagged a compute gap versus their US and Chinese peers, and access to closed frontier models has become a recurring sticking point in the region’s competitiveness debate. Google is offering the tools rather than open-sourcing them, keeping researchers on its infrastructure.
Why it matters: Programs like this can quickly raise the level of AI-assisted science across a continent, but they also deepen dependence on a handful of large labs for the compute and models that research increasingly runs on.
(Original source: Google)
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