GAME CHANGER: Multi-Agent AI Accelerates Discovery

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]It's not just a language model.

[00:00:01]Co-scientist is a multi-agent system >> [music] >> where AI agents perform specialist roles mimicking what you'd expect in a real research team. Co-scientist allows us to develop experiments [music] and understand the mechanisms of should we pursue this or not so we can get to those scientific breakthroughs even faster.

[00:00:19]I think Co-scientist [music] is a very natural expression of a long history of work that's happened at DeepMind over the years with new scientific discovery as the goal.

[00:00:29]The Co-scientist system is a team of agents. Some of these agents take the goal that a scientist [music] provides and will go and scour the literature, then start generating hypotheses, creating new ideas, and even then evolving those ideas. While that's happening, others will extract new information that's learned in the course of comparing ideas with each other.

[00:00:51]Another agent in the team helps to rank or compare different ideas. [music] The system has the chance to connect facts from completely previously separate fields but [music] which could come together to make a very creative breakthrough new discovery.