Category · 15 records
AI and research
Research papers, research projects and artificial intelligence models. The museum distinguishes a paper, a model, a demo and a product, even when they share a name.
- Google Museum
Research paper › AI and researchThe Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
April 1998 — Paper by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page that presented Google as an academic prototype and described PageRank.
- Google Museum
Experiment › AI and researchGoogle Flu Trends, flu measured by searches (2008–2015)
November 11, 2008 — Google.org launched Flu Trends to estimate flu levels in each U.S.
- Google Museum
Event › AI and researchGoogle buys DeepMind, the artificial intelligence lab (2014)
January 26, 2014 — Google confirmed on January 26, 2014 that it had bought DeepMind, a British artificial intelligence company founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.
- Google Museum
Event › AI and researchAlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at Go 4–1 (2016)
March 9, 2016 — Two years after Google bought it, DeepMind put its Go program, AlphaGo, against Lee Sedol, one of the world's top players, in a five-game series in Seoul from March 9 to 15, 2016.
- Google Museum
Product or service › AI and researchGoogle Assistant, the conversation with Google (2016)
May 18, 2016 — Sundar Pichai introduced the Google Assistant as an ongoing two-way dialogue between people and Google, meant to work across devices.
- Google Museum
Research paper › AI and researchAttention Is All You Need, the Transformer paper (2017)
June 12, 2017 — The paper by Ashish Vaswani and seven co-authors proposed the Transformer, a neural network architecture based solely on attention mechanisms, without recurrence or convolutions.
- Google Museum
Event › AI and researchGoogle Duplex, the Assistant that phones for you (2018)
May 8, 2018 — In the Google I/O demo, the Assistant called a salon to book a haircut and handled the conversation with the person who answered, using pauses and filler sounds that sounded natural.
- Google Museum
Product or service › AI and researchBard, Google's chatbot that became Gemini (2023–2024)
February 6, 2023 — On February 6, 2023 Sundar Pichai introduced Bard, an experimental conversational AI service built on the LaMDA model, first for a group of testers.
- Google Museum
Organization › AI and researchDeepMind and Google Brain merge into Google DeepMind (2023)
April 20, 2023 — Nine years after buying DeepMind, Google combined the British lab and the Brain team from Google Research into a single unit called Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis.
- Google Museum
AI model › AI and researchGemini 1.0, the first Gemini model (2023)
December 6, 2023 — Introduced by Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis, Gemini 1.0 was described as Google's largest and most capable AI model, multimodal from the ground up.
- Google Museum
Event › AI and researchAlphaFold earns Hassabis and Jumper the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
October 9, 2024 — On October 9, 2024 Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David Baker.
- Google Museum
Event › AI and researchA Google scientist wins the Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)
October 7, 2025 — A year after the Chemistry Nobel for AlphaFold, another Nobel Prize reached Google.
- Google Museum
AI model › AI and researchGemini 3, the model that reached Search on day one (2025)
November 18, 2025 — Announced on November 18, 2025 by Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu, Gemini 3 debuted as Gemini 3 Pro, in preview.
- Google Museum
Event › AI and researchApple picks Gemini as the foundation of its AI models (2026)
January 12, 2026 — In a joint statement published on January 12, 2026, Google and Apple announced a multi-year partnership under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Gemini models and Google's cloud technology.
- Google Museum
AI model › AI and researchGemini 3.5 Flash, the default model in AI Mode (2026)
May 20, 2026 — Introduced at Google I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash was described by Google as the first in a series of models combining frontier intelligence with action.