Google Opens Frontier AI Models to 200 European Scientists with $3 Million in Compute Credits

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud announced on October 14 that they will provide direct access to frontier AI models and $3 million in compute credits to up to 200 leading European scientific researchers. The initiative, delivered through the European Union's RAISE (Resource for AI Science in Europe) program, grants researchers access to Google's advanced tools including AlphaFold 3 for protein structure prediction, WeatherNext for AI-driven weather forecasting, and AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and AlphaEarth Foundations for genomic and environmental research.