Credit: Bob Noah via Shutterstock.com Up to 200 European researchers will get direct access to Google’s most advanced science AI models, plus $3 million in computing credits, Google said today. The offer comes from its AI lab, Google DeepMind, and its cloud arm, Google Cloud. The models include AlphaFold 3, which predicts the structure of proteins and other molecules, and WeatherNext, which forecasts the weather. Researchers will also get AlphaGenome, which studies DNA, AlphaEvolve, an AI agent that designs algorithms, and AlphaEarth Foundations, which maps the planet from satellite data.
DeepMind released AlphaFold 3 in May 2024 with Isomorphic Labs, its sister company focused on drug discovery. Since November 2024, academics have been able to download its code and model weights for non-commercial work. The offer will run through RAISE, the European Union’s programme to help scientists use AI. Google said it wants to help close the gap in computing power that European researchers sometimes face.
The tools will help teams solve hard problems more quickly, from forecasting extreme weather to mapping molecules, wrote Maureen Costello, a Google Cloud vice president, in the blog post. Google did not say how researchers will be chosen, when the access will start, or how the credits will be split between them. The European Commission launched RAISE, short for Resource for AI Science in Europe, in November 2025 as a virtual institute. Its pilot phase has €107 million in EU funding, most of it to train and attract AI researchers.
It also aims to secure computing time for scientists at the EU’s planned AI gigafactories. In February 2025, the EU also set up a €20 billion fund to build up to five of these large AI computing centres. In July, the company broke up the team behind AlphaFold, which won a Nobel Prize in 2024, and moved most of its members to other work. A month earlier, Nobel laureate John Jumper, who led AlphaFold’s development, said he was leaving DeepMind.
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