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MIT and UBC unveil WorldParticle, one AI model for many physical materials

Co-leading the WorldParticle project

For decades, simulating a physical process has meant building a dedicated program: one solver for water, another for cloth, another for how a protein folds. On Nov. 9, researchers at MIT and the University of British Columbia showed a single neural network that handles all of them.

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We want to have a GPT moment for simulation.

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It is a similar architecture to ChatGPT. But instead of predicting one word at a time to write a piece of text, we are predicting how these particles will move, one step at a time.

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