Google Deepmind's Materials AI Has Already Discovered 2.2 Million New Crystals
VentureBeat, Wednesday, November 29,2023
Researchers at Google DeepMind and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory today announced in a stunning scientific breakthrough that they have developed a new AI system called GNoME that has discovered over 2 million new materials that could be used to develop technologies like batteries, solar panels, and computer chips.
The research was published this week in two papers in the scientific journal Nature. In one study, DeepMind researchers explain how they scaled up deep learning techniques to enable GNoME to explore possible material structures with unprecedented efficiency.
In 17 days, the AI system was able to identify 2.2 million potentially stable new inorganic crystal structures, over 700 of which have already been experimentally validated. This represents almost a 10x increase over previously known stable inorganic crystals.