{"id":92100,"date":"2025-12-11T17:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92100"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:35:13","slug":"deepmind-to-establish-ai-lab-for-material-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/deepmind-to-establish-ai-lab-for-material-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind to Establish AI Lab for Material Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind is set to launch its first research laboratory dedicated to discovering new substances and compounds used in batteries and semiconductors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also coming to the UK in 2026: our first automated materials discovery lab, fully integrated with Gemini. \ud83d\udc8e<\/p>\n<p>Overseen by a team of researchers, it will synthesize hundreds of new candidate materials daily \u2013 which could help to develop future solar cells, chips and next-gen\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoogleDeepMind\/status\/1999074624588394809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The facility will be launched in the UK in 2026 as part of Google&#8217;s partnership with the country&#8217;s authorities. The company aims to apply artificial intelligence across more scientific fields.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement involves adapting several AI models for scientists, educators, and civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>DeepMind described the lab as the first &#8220;automated&#8221; facility using robotics to conduct scientific experiments, minimizing human involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s AI division in the new lab will explore materials that could enhance medical imaging, solar panels, and microchips.<\/p>\n<p>The company will provide British scientists with &#8220;priority access&#8221; to four scientific models, including those for DNA analysis and weather forecasting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The discovery of new materials is one of the most important tasks in science,&#8221; wrote DeepMind&#8217;s head, Demis Hassabis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The UK government emphasized that the company will support research in nuclear fusion and develop tools for scientists based on Gemini.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, DeepMind will share its proprietary models and data with the British Institute for AI Safety\u2014a government agency established in 2023 for testing and evaluating AI systems.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, Google DeepMind <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/google-develops-ai-model-to-communicate-with-dolphins\">created a model<\/a> for decoding dolphin speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind is set to launch its first research laboratory dedicated to discovering new substances and compounds used in batteries and semiconductors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"DeepMind to launch its first lab for discovering new materials in 2026.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1474,738,810],"class_list":["post-92100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-deepmind","tag-google","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"282","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"DeepMind to launch its first lab for discovering new materials in 2026.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92100","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=92100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92102,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92100\/revisions\/92102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}