Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European researchers direct access to Google's advanced science AI models, paired with $3 million in computing credits, according to Google.
The access runs through RAISE, the European Union's Resource for AI Science in Europe, launched as a virtual institute in November 2025 with €107 million in pilot-phase EU funding aimed largely at training and attracting AI researchers.
Google said it wants to close the computing gap that European researchers sometimes face.
Hard problems solved quickly
Google Cloud vice president Maureen Costello wrote that the tools will help teams "solve hard problems more quickly," from forecasting extreme weather to mapping molecules.
- The model lineup includes:
- AlphaFold 3, which predicts protein and molecular structures and was released in May 2024 with sister company Isomorphic Labs WeatherNext, for weather forecasting
- AlphaGenome, for DNA research
- AlphaEvolve, an agent that designs algorithms
- And AlphaEarth Foundations, which maps the planet using satellite data
Academics have been able to download AlphaFold 3's code and weights for non-commercial work since November 2024.
Who will be picked?
Google has not said how researchers will be selected, when access begins, or how the credits will be divided.
The offer also feeds into RAISE's push to secure computing time at the EU's planned AI gigafactories, backed by a separate €20 billion fund set up in February 2025 to build up to five such centres.
The access comes months after DeepMind broke up the team behind AlphaFold, which won a Nobel Prize in 2024, reassigning most of its members to other work, and after AlphaFold's lead developer, John Jumper, announced his departure from DeepMind.
