GNoME is announced as 2.2 million new crystal structures
Google DeepMind published its Graph Networks for Materials Exploration work in Nature and announced 2.2 million newly predicted crystal structures, about 380,000 of them predicted stable, framed publicly as equivalent to roughly 800 years of accumulated knowledge. The announcement was widely reported as a discovery of new materials.
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- GNoME and the materials-discovery claim · technology system · not located
- Google DeepMind · company · United Kingdom · not located
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Scaling deep learning for materials discovery (GNoME)
Graph Networks for Materials Exploration produced 2.2 million predicted new crystal structures, of which about 380,000 were predicted stable, presented publicly as equivalent to roughly 800 years of accumulated knowledge. V55 verification basis: neither the paper nor the announcement was fetched. The 2.2 million and roughly 380,000 figures, the "800 years" framing and the Nature publication in 2023 were carried in search results attributing them to the paper and to DeepMind's announcement; the Nature volume, article number and page range were NOT retrieved and are deliberately omitted, as is the full author list.
Nature (Springer Nature); Google DeepMind announcement · 2023-11 · Partly verified
Merchant, A. et al., Nature (2023); Google DeepMind, "Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning", https://deepmind.google/blog/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/
Recorded on GNoME and the materials-discovery claim
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