Accelerating scientific discovery with AI-powered Empirical Research Assistance

▤ Summary

Google Research introduces Empirical Research Assistance, an AI system that helps scientists generate and optimize empirical software for hypothesis evaluation. The system uses Gemini, tree search, and iterative code rewriting to explore thousands of code variants and improve performance on scorable tasks. It demonstrates strong results across six benchmarks in genomics, public health, geospatial analysis, neuroscience, time-series forecasting, and numerical analysis. The article highlights that ERA can reduce research iteration time from months to hours or days while producing verifiable and reproducible code outputs.

▦ Linked Companies

Google LLC

$100M to $250M