Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

Title: Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

URL Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/googles-year-in-review-8-areas-with-research-breakthroughs-in-2025/

This was a year of AI agents, reasoning and scientific discovery.

2025 has been a year of extraordinary progress in research. With artificial intelligence, we can see its trajectory shifting from a tool to a utility: from something people use to something they can put to work. If 2024 was about laying the multimodal foundations for this era, 2025 was the year AI began to really think, act and explore the world alongside us. With quantum computing, we made progress towards real-world applications. And across the board, we helped turn research into reality, with more capable and useful products and tools making a positive impact on people's lives today.

We’re also leading major discoveries and shaping the future of science in areas like quantum computing, energy and moonshots. Research in this area drew new levels of public attention, with progress towards real-world applications of quantum computing as demonstrated by Quantum Echoes and, notably, Googler Michel Devoret becoming a 2025 Physics Nobel Laureate along with former Googler John Martinis and UC Berkeley’s John Clarke, for their foundational 1980s quantum research.

Project Suncatcher: Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design (Nov 2025) Googler Michel Devoret awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (Oct 2025) Our Quantum Echoes algorithm is a big step toward real-world applications for quantum computing (Oct 2025)

9 ways AI makes Pixel 10 our most helpful phone yet (Aug 2025) Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode (March 2025) Gemini 3 brings upgraded smarts and new capabilities to the Gemini app (Nov 2025) NotebookLM adds Deep Research and support for more source types (Nov 2025) Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt (Nov 2025)

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Here’s a look back at some of the breakthroughs, products and scientific milestones that defined the work of Google, Google DeepMind and Google Research in a year of relentless progress.

This year, we significantly advanced our model capabilities with breakthroughs on reasoning, multimodal understanding, model efficiency, and generative capabilities, beginning with the release of Gemini 2.5 in March and culminating in the November launch of Gemini 3 and the December launch of Gemini 3 Flash.