Alibaba’s Elements Claw AI agent unearths 4 new superconductors

Alibaba Group Holding’s Damo Academy has unveiled what it calls the industry’s first artificial intelligence agent for discovering superconducting materials, saying that the tool has already found four previously unknown compounds that were later verified in laboratory experiments. Superconducting materials are substances able to conduct electricity without resistance and expel magnetic fields when cooled to low temperatures – a capability breakthrough that could revolutionise power grids,...