# Google Research — Testing LLMs on superconductivity research questions

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-16T17:31:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Models affected: NotebookLM
- Source: https://research.google/blog/testing-llms-on-superconductivity-research-questions/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1358-testing-llms-on-superconductivity-research-questions

Google Research published a study testing six LLMs on expert-level questions about high-temperature superconductivity. The top performers were NotebookLM and a custom-built system that used curated references. The paper was published in PNAS.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/testing-llms-on-superconductivity-research-questions/:

> We found that the top performers were two tools that drew from a closed ecosystem of certified, quality-controlled sources: NotebookLM and a custom-built system.

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