Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

Sep 15, 2026

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We’re asking what’s possible for health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity.

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Today, we reached a significant milestone that stands as a testament to decades of AI research and advancement: Google technologies now support more than 300 languages, spoken by 7 billion people — representing 86% of the global population. To help us understand how these tools are driving real-world opportunity, we also released new interactive insights today with our AI & Economy ATLAS, the most comprehensive look at how real people are using AI globally. This comes on top of a raft of key AI advances in science to benefit people over just the past few weeks:

• We mapped the predicted impact of all 9 billion possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
• We introduced WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather model, delivering 50% more accurate precipitation forecasts a day or more ahead — and it’s already in use in our products.
• We brought together data on global health, food security, and socioeconomics into a single Planetary Prediction Engine to forecast planetary crises — this has already been used in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the U.S. in identifying vulnerable communities across 21 CDC health indicators.
• We scaled AI research to help cut the climate impact of aviation — this is already being applied in the U.K. (in collaboration with the government) and in Asia.

We’re making progress in using AI to improve disease detection and diagnosis, and to better understand health conditions:

AI offers a profound opportunity to expand access to knowledge and support learners and educators alike: