2 Million NEW Potential Materials Found by AI

Building Startups by Ajay Yadav

The ‘No-BS’ BS Newsletter

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💻️AI

➡️ 2 Million NEW Potential Materials Found by AI

Time to look beyond “Best AI Tools” lists, let’s talk science.🥼 

Discovering and synthesising new material structures takes decades. An everyday example is that of carbon fiber: the development of carbon fiber started in the 1960s, but it did not gain its broader commercial applications in the automative and sports industry until several decades after.

Day before yesterday, Google’s Deepmind AI researchers published a paper sharing the discovery of 2.2 million new crystals, which is equivalent to approximately 800 years’ worth of knowledge in less than one year!!!😲 

Out of the 2.2 million new crystals discovered, about 381,000 are thought to be “stable.” For anybody who’s unfamiliar, stability here refers to the ability of a material to maintain its structure and properties over time, under various conditions and external influences. It basically does not decompose.

Deepmind's Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME) is the AI model credited with this discovery. Here is a snippet from Google’s blog:

Of its 2.2 million predictions, 380,000 are the most stable, making them promising candidates for experimental synthesis. Among these candidates are materials that have the potential to develop future transformative technologies ranging from superconductors, powering supercomputers, and next-generation batteries to boost the efficiency of electric vehicles.

…To build a more sustainable future, we need new materials. GNoME has discovered 380,000 stable crystals that hold the potential to develop greener technologies – from better batteries for electric cars, to superconductors for more efficient computing.

 Google Deepmind, Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

THIS is the level of advancement that AI has enabled, and it is now a promise towards radical acceleration in technological development.

The 2.2 million crystal structures demonstrate the power of artificial intelligence to identify novel materials and open up possible advancement in domains ranging from renewable energy to advanced computation.🌍️ 

This may be too technical for a lot of people, myself included. But I just wanted you to marvel at the momentum AI can harness for technological advancement.

800 years’ worth of knowledge…in one year.🤯 

The promise is huge. Let’s hope it delivers :)

➡️ AI News of the Week: ChatGPT Turns 1!

Feels unreal that ChatGPT has only been around for a year, but the chatbot does celebrate its first birthday today. Reflecting on the year passed really keeps up the theme of rapid acceleration that AI allows, doesn’t it?🤖 

Sam Atlman feels the same:

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➡️ AI Tool of the Week: Pika

The tool has been doing the rounds on LinkedIn, but incase you haven’t heard of Pika yet, let me introduce you to it.📽️ 

Pika is not only an expert in text-to-video conversion, it also makes spectacular 3D animations from plain words. The company has also raised about 55 million USD, and users are generating millions of videos per week.🤯 

Pika has recently dropped Pika 1.0 that has some SERIOUS video production capabilities. The user can generate videos in almost any style that they want, from cinematic, animated, cartoon, etc. Check it out yourself! :)

🚀Entrepreneurship

The last two years have completely changed my perspective about entrepreneurship.🔍️ 

I was barely 20 when I started my first company. And it is there where I learned the most, made the most mistakes, had the craziest time.

I was there for nearly 10 years. And now when I look back, I can’t help but think how different I was compared to now.⏳️ 

Now, I’ve come to a point where I’ve stopped chasing anything fancy, and started chasing a great business.🌟 

And contrary to popular opinion, great businesses are not just businesses with millions in rounds of funding, or being backed by prominent names, or even those with hefty valuations.💲 

Great businesses are simply businesses with a foundation built to last a decade. A great business has:

• Good economics

• Profitability

• Real money and real value

And to start building one, you have to fundamentally ask yourself:

What do I want to build?💡 

Rounds will come and go, valuations and money will come and go, but a solid foundation is will outlive it ALL. Trust me.💼 

I have learned to take it day by day, to not be as rattled as I was in my 20s and play the long game.

And when you do that, more than the funds and valuations, you start to care about your people more:

• Team

• Customers

• Continuous Product Value

These are perspectives I’m only able to channel after being an entrepreneur for 18 years. The rush of fundings and valuations and wanting to become the biggest thing on this planet drives so many first-time entrepreneurs.

But solid foundations found in consistent people and product values are a game of their own.

They are long games, they are great businesses, and after 18 years, I know that’s what I want to build. :)

👔 Leadership Lifestyle

Maggie Adhami-Boynton is the Founder of ShopThing, one of North America's first live video commerce platforms, and a 15-year startup veteran with a Master’s degree from Harvard.🧑‍🎓 

ShopThing has dominated the APAC market and has been hailed by industry observers as the next step in e-commerce. What distinguishes ShopThing is its innovative approach to brief video live shopping, which introduced the $430 billion gig economy model to North America.💰️ 

Adhami-Boynton's entrepreneurial journey is marked by creativity, inclusivity, and a consistent pursuit of greatness. This is what she says about ideas and entrepreneurship:

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