India, Oct. 22 -- Cognitive warmup. Among the frontier AI players, Google remains the only one that truly owns the entire stack - from the Gemini family of models and massive proprietary datasets, to its cloud infrastructure and custom tensor processing units (TPUs). But what really sets it apart is the research-first instinct that never went out of fashion in Mountain View.

While others love grandstanding about "solving world hunger" or "curing cancer," Google quietly went ahead and started doing the work. Its latest milestone, developed in collaboration with Yale University, is Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a new 27 billion parameter foundation model designed to decode the language of individual cells. It's not hyperbole to call...