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Deep Dive: Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world

Ran in the Morning edition of LivePulse, Monday, October 19, 2026
Original reporting: MIT News AI · Zach Winn | MIT News, 2026-10-18

In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would tell a large language model what they want, and it would serve them the perfect material for the job. Unfortunately, that approach doesn’t work well yet, and the problem comes down to data: Most materials consist of 3D arrangements of crystals, not the text streams that today’s large language models are trained on.

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