Alibaba Group Holding’s Damo Academy unveiled Elements Claw, an artificial intelligence agent it says is the industry’s first tool for discovering superconducting materials.
The agent has already identified 4 previously unknown compounds that were later validated in laboratory experiments, the Damo Academy said in an announcement.
Superconducting materials conduct electricity without resistance and expel magnetic fields when cooled to low temperatures, giving them potential applications in power grids, quantum computing and high-speed maglev trains.
Discovering new superconductors has long relied on laborious trial-and-error experiments because scientists still lack a complete theoretical framework to predict superconductivity.
Researchers have accumulated about 2,000 known superconducting materials in the widely used SuperCon database.
