Google’s Data Commons Gives AI Agents Access to a Vast Trove Of Stats

Data Commons may be one of the lesser-known Google initiatives, but the project, which collects public datasets across a broad set of topics and geographies (and the tools to query and visualize them), can come in quite handy when you’re looking for an authoritative source of data to enrich your applications or proprietary data sets. But in this new era of AI, there are also new use cases for Data Commons, including grounding large language models (LLMs) with real-world statistical information to reduce hallucinations when AI agents have to…