The Future of Research is Agentic [Video]

As part of Google’s series of mega AI announcements, the company launched a Deep Research tool that is changing the world of academic research and education. It works on the Gemini bot and can search hundreds of websites within minutes. 

“Gemini models are moving into agent-based areas that reason, plan, and act in the real world,” said Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis in a podcast, reflecting on this leap towards the next generation of agent-based systems serving as universal digital assistants. Zoubin Ghahramani, VP of research at Google Deepmind, revealed it was his dream to bring these “intelligent agents” to life to simplify research.

It has, perhaps, been the most useful innovation for Google since NotebookLM. “The new Deep Research feature from Google feels like one of the most appropriate ‘Google-y’ uses of AI to date and is quite impressive,” said The Wharton School’s professor Ethan Mollick, who had early access to the tool. He mentioned …