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Opinion / analysisEfficiency & Inference · Training & Scaling · Hardware & Compute1 source · May 6, 2026

AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields

AlphaEvolve has been used as a regular tool to optimize the design of the next generation of TPUs.

Key points

  • AlphaEvolve has graduated from pilot testing to becoming a core component of our infrastructure.
  • “AlphaEvolve began optimizing the lowest levels of hardware powering our AI stacks.
  • AlphaEvolve improved the efficiency of Google Spanner by refining its Log-Structured Merge-tree compaction heuristics.
  • “AlphaEvolve allows us to explore larger chemical spaces faster and more efficiently than ever before.

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