AGENTIC-SYSTEMSMay 12, 20261 min read7 views

Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research

Co-Scientist is a groundbreaking multi-agent AI system designed to accelerate scientific research. Backed by tech leaders like Demis Hassabis and Sundar Pichai, this project marks a major milestone in AI-driven scientific discovery.

Acknowledgements

This research project was led by Juraj Gottweis and Vivek Natarajan, as well as Alan Karthikesalingam, Annalisa Pawlosky, and Yunhan Xu, and with key contributions from: Wei-Hung Weng, Adam Marsh, Alexander Daryin, Alessio Orlandi, Andrew Carroll, Anil Palepu, Antonia Mould, Artiom Myaskovsky, Ash Otter, Avinatan Hassidim, Ben Feinstein, Burak Gokturk, Byron Lee, Dan Popovici, Dina Zverinski, Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Elahe Vedadi, Fan Zhang, Felix Weissenberger, Florian Hasler, Frankie Garcia, Gary Peltz, Grzegorz Glowaty, Ivor Rendulic, Ivan Budiselic, Jacob Blum, James Stevenson, Jan Freyberg, Jeremy Ratcliff, Joel Fenster, JosÃ© R PenadÃ©s, Katherine Chou, Kavita Kulkarni, Keran Rong, Khaled Saab, Luka Rimanic, Marina Boia, Mathias Voges, Matthias Bellaiche, Nenad TomaÅ¡ev, Ottavia Bertolli, Paige Kunkle, Petar Sirkovic, Ryutaro Tanno, Suzy Pickering, Tao Tu, Tiago R D Costa, Tom Sheffer, Victoria Langston, Vikram Dhillon, Yuan Guan, Ziyue Wang, Amin Vahdat, James Manyika, Demis Hassabis, Yossi Matias and Pushmeet Kohli.

We thank our teammates Ali-Cowen Rivers, Anna Trostanetski, Barnaby James, Bill Byrne, Boon Panichprecha, Charlie Taylor, Diego Ballesteros, Hussein Hassan Harrirou, Ieva Grublyte, Ivan Lee, Jakob Oesignhaus, James Walker, Jorge Barrios, Laurynas TamuleviÄius, Luka VaÅ¾iÄ, Meet Shah, Mihai Ciorobea, Natasha Latysheva, Nicolas Stroppa, Nir Kerem, Saz Basu, Sebastian Nowozin, Taylor Applebaum, Team Rakket and, Thomas Wagner and Yaniv Carmel for their technical support.

We also want to thank Carmela Sidrauski, Clare Bryant, Filippo Menolascina, Jonathan Gootenberg, Katherine LabbÃ©, Matthew Onsum, Omar Abudayyeh, Ritu Raman, Ryan Flynn, Velia Siciliano for their collaboration.

Finally, we thank Ali Eslami, Andy Berndt, Ankur Jain, Anna Koivuniemi, Clemens Mayer, Dale Webster, Greg Corrado, Jason Freidenfelds, Jeff Dean, Joelle Barral, John Jumper, John Platt, Josh Woodward, Karen DeSalvo, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Michael Brenner, Michael Howell, Noam Shazeer, Oriol Vinyals, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Ronit Levavi Morad, Royal Hansen, Scott Huffman, Srini Narayanan, Susan Thomas, Thomas Kurian, Zoubin Ghahramani and Sundar Pichai for their support of this work.

Source: Google DeepMind Blog

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