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  • Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership

    Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership

    May 20, 2026 Responsibility & Safety

    Google DeepMind

    Partnering to apply frontier AI to advance health and life sciences, reimagine classrooms and support the workforce of the future.

    At Google DeepMind, we believe frontier AI can be a powerful force for good. Last year, we opened a new research lab in Singapore to expand the impact of our work across the Asia-Pacific region. Today, we are taking a major step forward. As part of our National Partnerships for AI initiative, we are launching new programmes in the country, while driving a key pillar of Google’s new National AI partnership with the Singapore Government.

    Through our work with multiple organisations, we are partnering to support public sector transformation, foster business growth and empower workers to thrive in an AI-first world. The partnership focuses on addressing real-world challenges—including improving healthcare, accelerating scientific discovery and reimagining education—to ensure these technological breakthroughs translate into meaningful progress across Singapore’s diverse communities. Together, we are strengthening Singapore’s National AI Strategy to responsibly deploy AI at scale for economic growth and public benefit. Ultimately, by accelerating science and innovation, AI could create an additional S$ 3.3 billion (US$2.5 billion) in economic value through faster R&D by 2040.

    Addressing complex societal challenges

    At the heart of this partnership is a shared commitment to accelerating local research and development that turns frontier AI potential into real, inclusive progress. Our team on the ground in Singapore is working alongside local experts to apply frontier AI responsibly to areas where it can have the most meaningful impact for and with the community, starting with healthcare and life sciences.

    • Augmenting care with AI co-clinician: We are exploring a collaboration with public health clusters as part of our global AI co-clinician research initiative. This work explores how AI can augment and support a doctor’s expertise to deliver higher quality care. It also looks into the evolution of healthcare to “triadic care,” where AI agents support patients throughout their care journeys under the clinical authority of their physician, with systems providing information sourced from clinical guidelines and scientific literature.
    • Advancing pandemic preparedness: With Google.org, we will support initiatives that advance infectious disease research and pandemic preparedness. Using frontier AI like AlphaFold and Google Earth and other latest AI for Science tools, we are working to accelerate our understanding of outbreaks across Southeast Asia. This is part of Google.org’s $7 million funding contribution to the Philanthropy Asia Alliance’s Health for Human Potential coalition.
    • Innovating for inclusivity: We are developing a Gemma-powered running assistant designed for blind and low vision athletes. By using spatial reasoning that provides real-time environmental understanding, this tool helps the athletes run independently without physical lines or human guides. We are partnering with SG Enable—Singapore’s focal agency for disability and inclusion—to test and iterate the product so it meets the real-world needs of vision-impaired runners.
    • Accelerating scientific discovery: We are partnering with the National Research Foundation to train local researchers on agentic AI for science tools like Hypothesis Generation built with Co-Scientist, which are already showing promise in a range of biomedical applications. We will also host workshops to help Singapore’s local scientific community use these frontier tools to unlock new breakthroughs.

    Enhancing education and building a future-ready workforce

    As we navigate the transition to an AI-driven economy, our goal is to ensure that communities across Singapore have the opportunity to thrive. We are partnering with the ecosystem to co-design programs that empower educators and learners to navigate new technologies responsibly.

    We have provided Gemini for Education to all educators from primary schools to junior colleges and will provide training on these pedagogically grounded AI tools. This will help teachers plan lessons, and tailor course material, freeing up precious time to focus on what matters: teaching. We will continue to collaborate with the Ministry of Education to strengthen its AI capabilities across teaching and learning, including educator training and upskilling programmes.

    Driving innovations for sustainability

    Building a truly prosperous future requires a responsible and collaborative approach to global sustainability. We are launching the ‘Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet’ in the Asia-Pacific region to partner with the next generation of climate visionaries. This program is designed to support startups, research teams and nonprofits using frontier AI to unlock new approaches to complex environmental challenges in areas like energy, water, agriculture and more. Selected organizations will receive expert mentorship, tailored support and help integrate frontier AI into their work, helping turn visionary ideas into meaningful progress.

    Pioneering responsible AI together

    To ensure that innovation serves as a true force for good, we believe it must be grounded in a shared foundation of responsibility. Google DeepMind is collaborating with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and MLCommons to research multimodal and multilingual safety benchmarks. This collaboration is focused on supporting the safe and responsible deployment of AI that respects the nuance of local languages and cultures, helping to ensure that the digital future we build is one that is designed for and with everyone.

    Shaping a prosperous future for all

    This partnership is a significant milestone in our journey with Singapore. By combining frontier research with local expertise, we can address complex societal challenges together and create new opportunities for growth.

    We look forward to working with researchers, doctors, educators and students to help ensure AI serves the diverse needs of communities across Singapore.

  • Strengthening our partnership with the UK government to support prosperity and security in the AI era

    Strengthening our partnership with the UK government to support prosperity and security in the AI era

    December 10, 2025 Responsibility & Safety

    Demis Hassabis, Lila Ibrahim, Pushmeet Kohli and Owen Larter

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    AI presents an opportunity to build a more prosperous and secure world.

    The UK has already laid a strong foundation to seize this moment and is uniquely positioned to translate AI innovation into public benefit. That’s why we are excited to deepen our collaboration with the UK government to accelerate this work and offer a blueprint for other countries.

    Together we will focus on using AI to speed up progress in science and education, modernize public services and advance national security and resilience.

    Accelerating access to frontier AI in key sectors: Science & Education

    Our partnership will center on providing access to frontier AI in two areas foundational to the UK’s long-term success: scientific discovery and education.

    The UK has a rich history of applying new technologies to drive scientific progress, from Hooke’s microscope to Faraday’s electrical experiments. We aim to build on this heritage, and empower the next generation of scientists with AI tools that can unlock breakthroughs, transform the economy, and solve some of the major challenges facing humanity. We will provide priority access to our “AI for Science” models to UK scientists, including:

    • AlphaEvolve – a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
    • AlphaGenome – an AI model to help scientists better understand our DNA
    • AI co-scientist – a multi-agent AI system that acts as a virtual scientific collaborator
    • WeatherNext – a family of state-of-the-art weather forecasting models

    Like the microscope or telescope, these AI tools are designed to enhance scientific capacity, enabling researchers to tackle problems of unprecedented complexity and scale. For example, AlphaFold – our AI system for predicting protein structures – has already enabled almost 190,000 researchers in the UK alone to deepen their understanding of areas such as crop resilience, antimicrobial resistance and other critical biological challenges.

    Establishing Google DeepMind’s first automated science laboratory in the UK

    To help turbocharge scientific discovery, we will establish Google DeepMind’s first automated laboratory in the UK in 2026, specifically focused on materials science research. A multidisciplinary team of researchers will oversee research in the lab, which will be built from the ground up to be fully integrated with Gemini. By directing world-class robotics to synthesize and characterize hundreds of materials per day, the team intends to significantly shorten the timeline for identifying transformative new materials.

    Discovering new materials is one of the most important pursuits in science, offering the potential to reduce costs and enable entirely new technologies. For example, superconductors that operate at ambient temperature and pressure could allow for low cost medical imaging and reduce power loss in electrical grids. Other novel materials could help us tackle critical energy challenges by unlocking advanced batteries, next-generation solar cells and more efficient computer chips.

    Rowendale Integrated Primary School participating in the Northern Ireland Education Authority’s C2k program where teachers were able to save up to 10 hours per week with their use of tools like Gemini for Education.

    Enhancing teaching and learning

    AI can augment the classroom experience, especially when grounded in learning science.

    This impact was made clear in a successful pilot program in Northern Ireland, where Gemini helped save teachers an average of 10 hours per week by streamlining administrative work and brainstorming engaging lesson content.

    Beyond time savings, Eedi’s recent exploratory randomized controlled trial (RCT) with UK students indicates that AI can help drive effective student learning. Students who received short AI tutoring sessions (under supervision by teachers) were 5.5 percentage points more likely to solve novel problems on subsequent topics than students who worked with human tutors alone.

    To help scale this impact further across the UK, we are supporting research to understand how AI tools impact teaching and learning through a rigorous scientific approach, and exploring how to tailor our Gemini model – leveraging our longstanding commitment to pedagogy, including our LearnLM efforts – to complement England’s national curriculum. Our goal is to deliver state of the art educational experiences while also helping reduce educator workloads, freeing them to reclaim more time to focus on what they do best: helping every learner thrive.

    Modernizing public services

    AI also has tremendous potential to help build more effective and efficient public services. We are working directly with government teams to ensure they have the technical expertise and access to frontier models required to reimagine these services to better serve citizens. The UK Government’s AI Incubator team (i.AI) is currently trialling Extract – a tool for council planners that uses Gemini to transform old planning documents into clear, digital data. Currently, converting a single planning document takes up to 2 hours. Extract will transform these into digital data in just 40 seconds, significantly speeding up decision-making timelines.

    Advancing national security and resilience

    Our partnership will involve deeper collaboration with the UK AI Security Institute on critical safety research in explainability, alignment and societal impact, so these risks may be better understood and mitigated. Read more about this work here.

    AI can also be a powerful defender against security risks. We will work with the UK government to advance AI-enhanced approaches to national cyber resilience, exploring using tools like Big Sleep and CodeMender to identify vulnerabilities and automatically fix code, enabling a more secure future.

    National partnerships on AI

    We believe AI will be humanity’s most transformational technology, and we are committed to partnering with governments globally to turn its potential into real progress for people everywhere. By building on our collaboration with the UK government and important initiatives like the US-UK Tech Prosperity Deal, we aim to advance innovation, scientific discovery, and security for all.

    Deepening our partnership with the UK AI Security Institute

    AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

    AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome

    WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

    How AI is giving Northern Ireland teachers time back

    Introducing CodeMender: an AI agent for code security