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Google launches AI research agents powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google just shipped autonomous research agents. Deep Research and Deep Research Max can now generate full reports without human intervention—no pilot, live Tuesday.
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Why it matters
Google is moving beyond chatbots into agent-based products. This is a concrete deployment of Gemini 3.1 Pro as a reasoning agent, signaling how major labs are monetizing next-gen model capabilities through application layers rather than API access alone.
The key facts
6 to knowProduct: Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents
Launch date: Tuesday (April 22, 2026)
Powered by: Gemini 3.1 Pro
Predecessor: Google's December AI research tool (used Gemini 3 Pro)
Capability: Autonomous research report generation
Category: Agent-based product (not a model release)
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Publisher excerpt: Google LLC has released two artificial intelligence agents that can generate research reports about user-specified topics. The agents made their debut on Tuesday. Deep Research and Deep Research Max are the successors to an AI research tool that Google introduced in December. The tool used Gemini 3…