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New material found by AI could reduce lithium use in batteries
Microsoft said AI and supercomputing were used to synthesise an entirely new material.
Executive vice president of Microsoft, Jason Zander, told the BBC one of the tech giant's missions was to "compress 250 years of scientific discovery into the next 25". Extracting the metal requires large amounts of water and energy, and the process can leave huge scars in the landscape, as well as toxic waste. "[We could] modify, test and tune the chemical composition of this new material and quickly evaluate its technical viability for a working battery, showing the promise of advanced AI to accelerate the innovation cycle," he said.
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