1 September 2026

DeepMind's AI Co-Scientist now runs full research experiments

First reported

Ars Technica ran this on , 5 days before the other 2 sources picked it up.

  • DeepMind expanded AI Co-Scientist from generating hypotheses to executing entire research workflows without human intervention.
  • The system can design experiments, write code, operate lab equipment, analyze results, and write papers in a closed loop.

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