Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Yossi Matias, Vice President at Google and Head of Google Research, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to do research at Google scale. Their conversation explores the "magic cycle” of research from breakthrough to real-world impact across flood forecasting, MedGemma, and the just-launched Gemini for Science. Learn more about AI tools for scientific discovery including Co-Scientist and Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), and topics like speculative decoding, generative UI, and quantum computing milestones including the Willow chip.
Chapters:
0:00 - The mission of Google Research
3:27 - the "Golden Age" of scientific research
4:38 - Google Earth AI and planetary intelligence
6:02 - MedGemma and health AI Impact
8:32 - AI as an amplifier of human ingenuity
11:32 - Flood forecasting, flash floods & crisis resilience
16:26 - Addressing AI disillusionment & skepticism
17:40 - Healthcare AI research and real life implementation
21:12 - Accelerating scientific discovery & the scientific method
26:17 - AI Co-Scientist: hypothesis generation in action
29:42 - Overcoming the validation bottleneck; PAT
32:19 - ERA & Gemini for Science
38:49 - Model efficiency & speculative decoding
42:46 - Generative UI (GenUI)
45:39 - Yossi's Background: Bell Labs & Search leadership
48:18 - Research on factuality for LLMs
53:14 - Education and future of learning, skills of the future
1:03:27 - Quantum Computing
1:09:54 - Concluding thoughts
Watch more Release Notes → https://goo.gle/4njokfg
Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers
Speaker: Yossi Matias, Logan Kilpatrick
Products Mentioned: Google AI, Gemini
Yossi Matias, Vice President at Google and Head of Google Research, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to do research at Google scale. Their conversation explores the "magic cycle” of research from breakthrough to real-world impact across flood forecasting, MedGemma, and the just-launched Gemini for Science. Learn more about AI tools for scientific discovery including Co-Scientist and Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), and topics like speculative decoding, generative UI, and quantum computing milestones including the Willow chip.
Chapters:
0:00 - The mission of Google Research
3:27 - the "Golden Age" of scientific research
4:38 - Google Earth AI and planetary intelligence
6:02 - MedGemma and health AI Impact
8:32 - AI as an amplifier of human ingenuity
11:32 - Flood forecasting, flash floods & crisis resilience
16:26 - Addressing AI disillusionment & skepticism
17:40 - Healthcare AI research and real life implementation
21:12 - Accelerating scientific discovery & the scientific method
26:17 - AI Co-Scientist: hypothesis generation in action
29:42 - Overcoming the validation bottleneck; PAT
32:19 - ERA & Gemini for Science
38:49 - Model efficiency & speculative decoding
42:46 - Generative UI (GenUI)
45:39 - Yossi's Background: Bell Labs & Search leadership
48:18 - Research on factuality for LLMs
53:14 - Education and future of learning, skills of the future
1:03:27 - Quantum Computing
1:09:54 - Concluding thoughts
Watch more Release Notes → https://goo.gle/4njokfg
Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers
Speaker: Yossi Matias, Logan Kilpatrick
Products Mentioned: Google AI, Gemini
