YC startup Discovered Materials launches $1M AI challenge for materials science

San Francisco YC startup Discovered Materials, which uses AI models to discover materials for advanced chips, is offering a $1M prize pool — $200,000 per solution — for five open materials science problems, including cuprate superconductivity theory and silicon-silicon dioxide interface prediction, with academic advisers defining the challenges.

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