Discovered Materials offers $1 million prize for AI materials science solutions
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Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup, announces a $1 million prize pool for AI models that solve five open materials science problems, including cuprate superconductivity and silicon-silicon dioxide interface structure prediction.
The problems were set by an advisory group of academics at leading universities.
Before the announcement, the company tested frontier lab models on the challenges. TechCrunch reports the models made little progress after several days of autonomous work per problem.
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AIDiscovered Materials, a San Francisco startup, announced a $1 million prize pool for AI models that solve five open materials science problems, including cuprate superconductivity and silicon-silicon dioxide interface structure prediction. The problems were set by an advisory group of academics at leading universities. Before the announcement, the company tested frontier lab models on the challenges, which made little progress after several days of autonomous work per problem.
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