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Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.\nFrom creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.\nThe GDM Biosecurity Initiative aims to leverage AI to proactively mitigate risks from biological threats, including those from nature or from intentional misuse of AI-enabled tools. 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