Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research
May 19, 2026 Science
Co-Scientist team
Introducing a collaborative AI partner for researchers to develop new hypotheses in life sciences and beyond.
Every great scientific breakthrough begins with a single, transformative idea. The spark of discovery relies on a researcher's ability to connect disparate facts and formulate the right hypothesis to test. But in an era of information overload and increasingly complex challenges, the search for these needle-in-a-haystack ideas has become a significant bottleneck for progress.
We believe AI can help dramatically accelerate the pace of breakthroughs by serving as a dedicated partner in the generation and refinement of breakthrough scientific hypotheses.
Today, in Nature we published our latest Co-Scientist research, introducing a new multi-agent AI system built with Gemini that iteratively generates, debates, and evolves novel hypotheses for complex scientific problems.
We are making the Co-Scientist system available to individual researchers through Hypothesis Generation, a new experimental tool...
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