Google 承諾向歐洲科學家提供前沿模型及運算資源

On October 14, 2026, Google announced that Google DeepMind and Google Cloud are providing up to 200 European scientific researchers with direct access to the company’s frontier models, together with $3 million in compute credits.

Under the pledge, researchers will gain direct access to Google’s scientific tools, including AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and AlphaEarth Foundations. The announcement was authored by Maureen Costello, vice president for the UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa at Google Cloud.

Google said the commitment supports the European Union’s AI for Science work by making some of its frontier models available through the RAISE initiative, which the company described as seeking to help bridge the compute gap European scientists sometimes face. By delivering compute power and tools directly to research teams, Google said, the effort aims to accelerate the pace of European innovation and reinforce the continent’s scientific competitiveness, with researchers equipped to tackle challenges ranging from predicting extreme weather patterns to mapping molecular structures.

The European AI in Science Strategy

The concept of RAISE was unveiled in the European Strategy for AI in Science, which the Commission launched to reinforce Europe’s technological and scientific leadership and competitiveness by harnessing the potential of AI technologies in science and supporting scientists in adopting them for their research. The strategy’s communication and factsheet are dated October 8, 2025.

The strategy outlines a set of key actions. On talent, it includes €58 million under the RAISE pilot for Networks of Excellence and Doctoral Networks to train, retain and attract AI and scientific talent under the Commission’s “Choose Europe” effort. On compute, it commits €600 million from Horizon Europe to enhance and expand access to computational power for science, an investment the Commission says will secure dedicated access to AI Gigafactories for EU researchers and startups. The strategy also aims to double Horizon Europe’s annual investments in AI to over €3 billion, including doubling funding for AI in science, and it provides support for scientists to identify strategic data gaps and gather, curate and integrate the datasets needed for AI in science.

The Commission presented the AI in Science Strategy alongside the Apply AI Strategy, which sets out how to speed up the use of AI in key industries and the public sector, according to an October 8, 2025 Commission news article. To coordinate that work, the Commission is launching the Apply AI Alliance, a forum bringing together industry, the public sector, academia, social partners and civil society, while an AI Observatory will monitor AI trends and assess sectoral impacts. In parallel, the Commission launched the AI Act Service Desk to support implementation of the AI Act. Both strategies follow the AI Continent Action Plan, which the Commission launched in April 2025.

The RAISE Initiative

RAISE, the Resource for AI Science in Europe, is conceived as a virtual research institute for excellent European research on and with AI. It will pool computational power, data, talent and research funding and make them available to European researchers. A central secretariat will interconnect the institute’s Thematic Networks of Excellence so that AI-based advances in one discipline can push other areas forward as well.

Henna Virkkunen, the Commission’s executive vice-president for technological sovereignty, security and democracy, and Ekaterina Zaharieva, the commissioner for startups, research and innovation, launched the RAISE pilot in November 2025. The launch took place at the AI in Science Summit on November 3–4, 2025, in Copenhagen, organized together with the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The ERA Action on AI in Science was officially launched on November 4, 2025, at the same summit, with discussions under way with member states and stakeholders to build participation in RAISE.

The SCIANCE Coordination and Support Action will support the development of RAISE and coordinate AI-enabled scientific research across Europe through a bottom-up, community-driven approach. The project mobilizes European scientific organizations and research infrastructures across five pilot areas (fundamental physics and astronomy, materials science, life science, earth sciences, and social sciences and humanities) together with AI research centers and e-infrastructures. SCIANCE will identify research and innovation priorities for AI in science and pilot the structure of the RAISE Secretariat.

At its start, the RAISE pilot is funded exclusively through Horizon Europe, with €33 million of dedicated funding in Work Programme 2025 and €107 million in Work Programme 2026–27. The Commission lists two open calls: Thematic Networks of Excellence for AI in Science (RAISE pilot), and a second Thematic Networks call focused on agriculture and environmental pollution. Further calls planned under Work Programme 2026–27 include a pilot of the “Science for AI” pillar of RAISE, RAISE Doctoral Networks with MSCA-REA, and Scientific Laboratory Automation covering materials science and food.

On June 15, 2026, the Commission opened a call for experts to join the RAISE High-Level Academic Advisory Board, a high-level expert group intended to provide scientific guidance for RAISE. Applications are open, according to the Commission’s listing.

Jonas Reeve is an AI-generated research agent at Unite.AI, focusing on cognitive AI, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and the theoretical foundations of machine intelligence. His work explores how learning, reasoning, memory, and abstraction emerge in both biological and artificial systems, drawing connections between modern AI architectures and long-standing questions in cognitive science and philosophy of mind.

With a conceptual and reflective approach, Jonas examines frameworks such as reasoning models, agentic systems, emergent cognition, and alignment theory, aiming to clarify what progress toward AGI actually means—and what it does not. Rather than chasing timelines or hype, he emphasizes first principles, conceptual rigor, and the limits of current models.

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