With its new AI Center, Google is establishing a platform in Berlin for collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) between science, business, politics, and society. The aim is to strengthen AI research and its application in Germany and to expand international cooperation.
Representatives from politics, science, and business gathered for the opening. Philipp Justus, Head of Google Germany, presented the AI Center and outlined Google's commitment to AI innovation in Germany. Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär, Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger, and Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegner emphasized the strategic importance of artificial intelligence for Germany and Berlin as a center of innovation.
Fabian Theis, Head of the Computational Health Center at Helmholtz Munich and Professor at TUM, contributed scientific perspectives. He presented joint research initiatives between Google and the scientific community, including AI models for medical research. Such approaches could help simulate disease progression or improve cancer diagnostics with the help of AI.
Two Funded AI Research Projects in the Healthcare Sector
Google.org supports several research projects in the healthcare sector that develop new AI methods and promote their safe use in medicine. This includes research conducted by scientists at Helmholtz Munich and TUM as part of the relAI initiative for reliable artificial intelligence.
In the “NextGen Health GenAI Benchmarks” project, Fabian Theis and Prof. Daniel Rückert from TUM are working together to develop strict evaluation standards for generative AI in healthcare. These benchmarks are intended to help ensure that AI-based systems work reliably and can be used safely in clinical applications.
At Helmholtz Munich, Fabian Theis leads the “Single Cell Foundation Models” project. Researchers are using AI methods to better understand the diversity of individual cells. The aim is to investigate disease mechanisms more precisely and thus enable new approaches to diagnosis and therapy.
Source: Press release Helmholtz-Centre Munich
