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CuspAI Completes $450M Series B Funding Co-led by NEA and Kleiner Perkins, Advancing Generative AI Platform ‘MIRA’ for Materials Discovery
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) USA Overview CuspAI, a generative AI platform for materials discovery, completed a $450 million Series B funding round co-led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from... -
Atomicrex: Open-Source Platform Unlocks Large-Scale Atomic Interaction Models for Faster Materials Discovery
atomicrex Overview A new open-source code, 'atomicrex,' is poised to accelerate computational materials science by dramatically simplifying the construction of interatomic potentials for simulations involving thousands of atoms or more. ... -
Energy-Constrained MLIP Embedding Improves Prediction Accuracy for Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts
ACS Publications (Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling) Overview Researchers developed an "energy-constrained" machine learning framework integrating MLIP-derived energy descriptors with pre-trained Crystal Hamiltonian Graph Neur... -
Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials: Foundation Models Reshape Materials Discovery
Review of Peer-Reviewed Articles Overview A new comprehensive review critically examines Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs), a transformative technology bridging the accuracy of quantum mechanics with the efficiency of class... -
NSF Commits $380M to National Self-Driving Lab Network, Accelerating Discovery 100x
UNC-Chapel Hill USA Overview The National Science Foundation (NSF) has committed $380 million to establish a nationwide network of 'programmable cloud laboratories,' with NC State University's 'SPEED Lab' receiving $20 million to lead ef... -
Physics-Based Generative AI Accelerates Design of High-Performance 3D Porous Media
arXiv Overview A new preprint introduces a physics-based generative AI framework for designing 3D porous media with precise physical properties like porosity and permeability. This framework integrates a property-aware variational autoen... -
NVIDIA and Applied Materials Propel Semiconductor Innovation with GPU-Accelerated AI, Achieving Up to 55x Speedup
NVIDIA Technical Blog USA Overview NVIDIA and Applied Materials have announced a strategic partnership to revolutionize semiconductor innovation through the integration of AI and GPU-accelerated simulations. This collaboration leverages ... -
CUNY and CCNY Secure $18.1M NSF Grant to Establish AI-Driven Bio-Inspired Materials Lab “AI-BIOME”
The City College of New York (National Science Foundation) USA Overview CUNY and CCNY have received an $18.1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to establish "AI-BIOME," an AI-enabled cloud-programmable national laboratory de... -
OMol25-Trained MLIPs Predict Na-Ion Battery Electrolyte Solvation Structures with DFT-Level Accuracy, Outperforming Inorganic-Only Models
ACS Publications (Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters) Overview This study demonstrates that machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) trained with the Open Molecules 2025 (OMol25) dataset accurately predict and experimentally ve... -
Generative AI Accelerates Custom Combustion Profile Design for 3D High-Energy Materials by Up to 95%
AZoM (Communications Engineering) Overview Researchers developed a hybrid generative AI framework for inverse-designing 3D high-energy material granular structures matching user-defined pressure-time combustion profiles. This framework i...
