While the world fixates on text-, image- and movie-generating AI, a startup headed by a former DeepMind senior researcher is developing GenAI tech to support the manufacturing of new physical materials. Orbital Materials founded by Jonathan Godwin, who previously was involved with DeepMind's material research efforts is creating an AI-powered platform that can be used to discover materials ranging from batteries to carbon dioxide-capturing cells. Godwin says he was inspired to found Orbital Materials by seeing how the techniques underpinning AI systems like AlphaFold, DeepMind's AI that can predict a protein's 3D structure from its amino acid sequence, could be applied to the materials sciences.
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Orbital Materials wants to create a system which would be as accessible and effective as software engineers use today to produce designs for household furniture and airplane wings.