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The grand prize would be a room-temperature superconductor, a material that could transform computing and electricity but that has eluded scientists for decades.
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Periodic Labs, like Lila Sciences, has ambitions beyond designing and making new materials. It wants to “create an AI scientist”—specifically, one adept at the physical sciences. “LLMs have gotten quite good at distilling chemistry information, physics information,” says Cubuk, “and now we’re trying to make it more advanced by…
