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The most impressive engineering feats in and around AI, explained

AI found 2.2 million new crystals. Now try making one

Materials Science

AI found 2.2 million new crystals. Now try making one

DeepMind multiplied the catalogue of stable crystals nearly tenfold in a single paper; a robot lab in Berkeley is discovering how few of them can actually be made

7 min read

The lab where AI designs new proteins and robots test them

Bio-engineering

The lab where AI designs new proteins and robots test them

By handing the pipetting, plating and waiting to robots and the design of new proteins to machine learning, labs have closed the loop between guessing a molecule and testing it, compressing years of trial and error into a running cycle

9 min read

Data centers in orbit are less mad than they sound

Space

Data centers in orbit are less mad than they sound

A satellite carrying an Nvidia H100 is already training models in space; the economics work only if rockets get roughly ten times cheaper

6 min read