{"id":57646,"date":"2025-09-04T12:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57646"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:45:15","slug":"ai-model-adheres-to-physical-laws-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ai-model-adheres-to-physical-laws-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Model Adheres to Physical Laws in Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at <span data-descr=\"Massachusetts Institute of Technology\" class=\"old_tooltip\">MIT<\/span> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09426-9\">developed<\/a> an artificial intelligence model called <span data-descr=\"Flow matching for Electron Redistribution\" class=\"old_tooltip\">FlowER<\/span>. It predicts the outcomes of chemical reactions with high accuracy, adhering to the fundamental law of mass conservation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study&#8217;s authors, previous attempts to use <span data-descr=\"large language models\" class=\"old_tooltip\">LLM<\/span> for these tasks had limited success. AI often ignored physical laws and could &#8220;create&#8221; new atoms or &#8220;remove&#8221; existing ones during calculations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s akin to alchemy,&#8221; explained researcher Junyoung Jung.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He noted that unlike ChatGPT, their model not only considers a set of inputs and outputs but also tracks all stages of substance transformation.<\/p>\n<p>To address the issue, the team employed a method proposed in the 1970s\u2014a matrix of bonds and electrons. This approach allows the program to track every charged particle in a reaction, ensuring no atom is created or lost.<\/p>\n<p>The FlowER model was trained on a database from the US Patent Office, which contains over a million chemical reactions. According to the developers, the system already demonstrates equal or higher accuracy compared to existing counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Connor Coley noted that the result of the work currently only proves the concept. The model does not yet cover some reactions involving metals and catalysts, but the team is already working on this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;We are incredibly excited to achieve such reliable predictions of chemical mechanisms. The model conserves mass and electrons,&#8221; added Coley.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The project is entirely open. The code, models, and datasets are published on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/FongMunHong\/FlowER\">GitHub<\/a>. The developers believe that FlowER is already a useful tool for evaluating reactions.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, the model may find applications in pharmaceuticals, the search for new materials, and electrochemical systems.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2026, the Chinese technology company Kaiwa Technology from Guangzhou <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-to-develop-robot-for-childbearing\">plans<\/a> to unveil a humanoid robot with an artificial womb in the abdominal area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT have developed the AI model FlowER, which predicts chemical reaction outcomes with high accuracy while adhering to the fundamental law of mass conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"MIT's AI model FlowER predicts chemical reactions accurately, conserving mass.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,147,167],"class_list":["post-57646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-mit","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"93","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"MIT's AI model FlowER predicts chemical reactions accurately, conserving mass.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57648,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57646\/revisions\/57648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}