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Introducing Groundsource: Turning news reports into data with Gemini

Google Research introduces Groundsource, a methodology that uses the Gemini LLM to extract structured historical disaster data from news reports, starting with a publicly available dataset of 2.6 million flash flood events across over 150 countries.

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Today, we’re introducing Groundsource, a new scalable methodology that leverages Gemini to transform unstructured global news into actionable, historical data. Our first, open-access Groundsource dataset for urban flash floods comprises 2.6 million records

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12 Mar 2026 10:42 UTC

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