Google pledges $3 million in compute credits for European researchers

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud announced a pledge on October 14, 2026, to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with direct access to AI models and a combined $3 million in compute credits. Google Cloud vice president Maureen Costello outlined the commitment in a company blog post.

Google named five tools researchers would gain access to: AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve and AlphaEarth Foundations. The company described potential uses ranging from predicting extreme weather to mapping molecular structures; those are proposed applications, not research results reported in the announcement.

The pledge also connects Google's research tools to the European Union's AI for Science work. Google said some of its models would be available through RAISE, an initiative it described as seeking to address a compute gap faced by European scientists. The post does not specify which models that route would cover.

The headline figures leave several practical questions open. Google's announcement gives no selection process, start date or terms for the credits. The $3 million is presented as one pool of compute support—not an amount promised to each researcher.