Materials · 2023

AI materials discovery (GNoME)

A neural network predicts 380,000 stable new crystals.

Google DeepMind's GNoME, published in Nature in 2023, proposed 2.2 million new crystal structures, about 380,000 judged stable. Machine learning began to speed up materials search.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Deep learning (AlexNet) 2012

What it led to 1

AI-driven materials discovery ~2030

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)