Politico March 19, 2025
TECH MAZE
Google is betting big on bots. The company is working on several initiatives that give doctors and researchers access to AI agents built on large language models that can review scientific journals more quickly than humans and advise on research proposals, patient diagnoses and treatment options. This use of bots as agents is referred to as agentic AI.
Developing new therapies: The newest of the bots is TxGemma, a collection of language models aimed at helping pharmaceutical companies with drug discovery. Google announced the initiative Tuesday at its annual Check-Up event in New York City.
TxGemma is based on Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot, a general-purpose large language model. Jöelle Barral, senior director of research and engineering at...