AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields — Google DeepMind

Discover how AlphaEvolve optimizes algorithms for genomics, quantum physics, global infrastructure, and more to accelerate scientific progress and solve real-world challenges.

May 7, 2026 Science AlphaEvolve team A year ago, we introduced AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms. We showed that AlphaEvolve can help make new discoveries on open problems across mathematics and computer science, and optimize algorithms that have since been deployed across critical parts of Google’s infrastructure. Today, because algorithms are part of nearly every aspect of life, the landscape of what AlphaEvolve can achieve is even broader. From helping explain the physics of the natural world to powering electricity grids and computing…

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