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Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research

"Co-Scientist," a multi-agent AI system designed to accelerate research by functioning as a collaborative partner. The project was led by researchers including Juraj Gottweis and Vivek Natarajan, with contributions from a large team across Google and other institutions. The system aims to assist scientists by leveraging multiple AI agents working together on complex research tasks.

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Acknowledgements This research project was led by Juraj Gottweis and Vivek Natarajan, as well as Alan Karthikesalingam, Annalisa Pawlosky, and Yunhan Xu, and with key contributions from: Wei-Hung Weng, Alexander Daryin, Alessio Orlandi, Andrew Carroll, Anil Palepu, Artiom Myaskovsky, Avinatan Hassidim, Ben Feinstein, Burak Gokturk, Byron Lee, Dan Popovici, Dina Zverinski, Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Elahe Vedadi, Fan Zhang, Felix Weissenberger, Florian Hasler, Gary Peltz, Grzegorz Glowaty, Ivor Rendulic, Ivan Budiselic, Jacob Blum, Jan Freyberg, Jeremy Ratcliff, José R Penadés, Katherine Chou, Kavita Kulkarni, Keran Rong, Khaled Saab, Luka Rimanic, Marina Boia, Matthias Bellaiche, Nenad Tomašev, Ottavia Bertolli, Petar Sirkovic, Ryutaro Tanno, Tao Tu, Tiago R D Costa, Tom Sheffer, Vikram Dhillon, Yuan Guan, Amin Vahdat, James Manyika, Demis Hassabis, Yossi Matias and Pushmeet Kohli. We thank our teammates Ali-Cowen Rivers, Anna Trostanetski, Barnaby James, Bill Byrne, Boon Panichprecha, Charlie Taylor, Diego Ballesteros, Hussein Hassan Harrirou, Ieva Grublyte, Ivan Lee, Jakob Oesignhaus, James Walker, Jorge Barrios, Laurynas Tamulevičius, Luka Važić, Meet Shah, Mihai Ciorobea, Natasha Latysheva, Nicolas Stroppa, Nir Kerem, Saz Basu, Sebastian Nowozin, Taylor Applebaum, Team Rakket and, Thomas Wagner and Yaniv Carmel for their technical support. We also want to thank Carmela Sidrauski, Clare Bryant, Filippo Menolascina, Jonathan Gootenberg, Katherine Labbé, Matthew Onsum, Omar Abudayyeh, Ritu Raman, Ryan Flynn, Velia Siciliano for their collaboration. Finally, we thank Ali Eslami, Andy Berndt, Ankur Jain, Anna Koivuniemi, Clemens Mayer, Dale Webster, Greg Corrado, Jason Freidenfelds, Jeff Dean, Joelle Barral, John Jumper, John Platt, Josh Woodward, Karen DeSalvo, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Michael Brenner, Michael Howell, Noam Shazeer, Oriol Vinyals, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Ronit Levavi Morad, Royal Hansen, Scott Huffman, Srini Narayanan, Susan Thomas, Thomas Kurian, Zoubin Ghahramani and Sundar Pichai for their support of this work.

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