How can AI help bridge global healthcare gaps? In the MedGemma Impact Challenge, launched in collaboration with Kaggle, 850+ teams showcased the potential. Today, we’re announcing the winners! Building upon our open-weight models, these developers are tackling a diverse range of critical healthcare challenges: 🏆 1st Place: EpiCast – designed for detecting disease outbreaks in West Africa. 🥈 2nd Place: Sunny – designed for privacy-first skin cancer screening. 🥉 3rd Place: FieldScreen AI – designed for on-device tuberculosis screening. 🏅 4th Place: Tracer – designed for the prevention of medical errors. ✨Special technology winners: ClinicDx, UniRad3s, BridgeDx, CaseTwin, BigTB6 ✨Honorable mentions: Dual Path ICU, Sentinel, Enso Atlas, CAP CDSS Congratulations to all the winners! Learn more about their innovations →goo.gle/47oQG1l
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From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day. We aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field is fundamental to our approach.
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Introducing Vibe Coding XR, a new rapid prototyping workflow that empowers Gemini Canvas w/ the XR Blocks framework to turn user prompts into interactive, physics-aware WebXR applications, allowing creators to quickly test intelligent spatial experiences →https://goo.gle/4bw0VTY
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Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4takpUc
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Mapping the modern world: We introduce S2Vec, a self-supervised framework, part of Google Earth AI, that transforms complex geospatial data into general-purpose embeddings for predicting population density, carbon emissions, and urban development at scale. Check out the blog: goo.gle/41rLzKa
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Today we are expanding the Google Quantum AI research program to include neutral atom quantum computing. This is a strategic move to sit alongside our core superconducting qubit work. By investing in both modalities, we can tap into their complementary strengths. Superconducting qubits offer the fast cycle times necessary for deep circuits, while neutral atom arrays provide a flexible connectivity graph for efficient error correction. Both paths accelerate our mission to build large-scale, error-corrected quantum computing to solve unsolvable problems, an engineering challenge we are excited to tackle. To lead this new chapter, we welcome Dr. Adam Kaufman to the team. Based in the AMO hub of Boulder, Colorado, he will lead a team embedded within the research ecosystem of CU Boulder and NIST. Read the full update from Hartmut Neven on the Google Keyword blog: https://goo.gle/40TycSV
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Discover the latest quantum computing research at APS Global Physics Summit 2026, March 16–19. From optimized algorithms to superconducting qubits and error characterization, there’s a lot to explore → goo.gle/46UJFoI
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Today on the blog, read all about how a large-scale evaluation of a mammography AI system across multiple NHS screening services in the UK demonstrates its potential to enhance cancer detection accuracy and reduce workload within complex double-reading workflows. More →https://goo.gle/47831qu
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Today we announce a new era of healthcare innovation at The Check Up, highlighting how Google Research is transforming patient care and scientific discovery. Our latest advancements focus on four key areas: - Clinical Collaboration: Research with @ImperialCollege and the NHS shows our AI system helped radiologists identify 25% of interval cancers that are typically missed during screenings. - Agentic AI: We are testing AMIE, a multi-agent system, in clinical settings to support history-taking and real-time clinical reasoning. - Foundational Models: Our MedGemma open-weight models have been downloaded over 3 million times, empowering developers to build localized health solutions. - Public Health: Using Google Earth AI, researchers are now creating high-resolution estimates of vaccination coverage to help public health teams pinpoint local gaps. We remain committed to the highest standards of accuracy and responsibility, collaborating with @GoogleDeepMind and global health partners to ensure these tools are safe and helpful for everyone. Learn more: goo.gle/4sL6WBS
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Check out #TheCheckUp tomorrow, where you'll hear from our own VP & Head of Google Research, Yossi Matias, and others ⬇️
Don’t miss #TheCheckUp 2026 on March 17 @ 11 am ET, where we’ll share Google’s latest advancements in Health and AI. Hear from: ∙ Dr. Michael Howell, MD MPH Chief Health Officer ∙ Hema Budaraju, VP, Product Management, Google Search ∙ Joëlle Barral, Senior Director of Research & Engineering, Google DeepMind ∙ rishi chandra, VP, Health and Home ∙ Dr. Garth Graham, Global Head of YouTube Health ∙ Yossi Matias, VP & Head of Google Research And others. Register to add the Livestream link to your calendar ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gnE4uVwc
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The pursuit of scientific discovery is entering a new era, driven by the transformative potential of AI. We believe that the most significant breakthroughs happen when advanced computing meets the world’s most pressing challenges. Today, Google.org is launching the Impact Challenge: AI for Science. We are looking to support researchers, scientific nonprofits, and social enterprises that are leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific progress in two critical domains: 🧬AI for Health & Life Sciences: Transforming how we understand biology and improve human health outcomes. 🌎 AI for Climate Resilience & Environmental Science: Developing scalable solutions to protect our ecosystems and build a sustainable future. Innovation requires more than capital. Selected organizations will gain access to a Google.org Accelerator, providing engineering support from Google Research and Google Deepmind, technical mentorship, and the Google infrastructure necessary to scale scientific moonshots into real-world impact. The next breakthrough is out there. Help us find the teams capable of achieving it. Applications are open through April 17th. →goo.gle/40oIXw0
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