Today, we announce five Grand Challenges in Material Science. We’re also committing $1M in prize money to anyone who can solve these challenges.
Over the last few months, we at Discovered Materials have worked with 10 leading professors to identify the hardest open problems in the field. They are decades old, extensively studied, verifiable and yet unsolved. We believe a breakthrough in any would unlock major advances in chip manufacturing, superconductivity, clean energy, and other domains at once.
We'd love to hear from the HN community:
1. If you're building reasoning models, research agents or scientific AI, point them at these challenges and tell us what happens. We’re interested in even a partial result or an interesting failure.
2. If you're a physicist or chemist, tell us whether we picked the right five, and which problem you'd add.
bigbadfeline•12m ago
What a great initiative! Many thanks for your efforts in this direction, material science is a hard and important discipline and quite in need of AI assistance, I know little about it but you're me giving me a reason to finally look deeper into the subject.
advaith08•48m ago
Over the last few months, we at Discovered Materials have worked with 10 leading professors to identify the hardest open problems in the field. They are decades old, extensively studied, verifiable and yet unsolved. We believe a breakthrough in any would unlock major advances in chip manufacturing, superconductivity, clean energy, and other domains at once.
We'd love to hear from the HN community: 1. If you're building reasoning models, research agents or scientific AI, point them at these challenges and tell us what happens. We’re interested in even a partial result or an interesting failure. 2. If you're a physicist or chemist, tell us whether we picked the right five, and which problem you'd add.
bigbadfeline•12m ago