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News, updates, and upcoming events from AI-MI highlighting research advances, partnerships, and people accelerating AI-driven materials discovery for energy, sustainability, and quantum technologies.
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New AI-MI–supported preprint: PhantomEnvironments: Training LLM Agents in Fictional Worlds
A new preprint co-authored by AI-MI Associate Director Kilian Weinberger and AI-MI PhD students Albert Gong , Chao Wan and Christian Belardi (Cornell University), “PhantomEnvironments: Training LLM Agents in Fictional Worlds,” was posted to arXiv on…
AI-MI Director Eun-Ah Kim speaks at KITP’s “Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier”
AI-MI Director Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University) gave an invited talk, “Interpretable and structure-aware AI for superconductivity discovery,” on September 29, 2026, at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) conference…
Celebrating AI-MI’s Postdoctoral Researchers During National Postdoc Appreciation Week
This week is National Postdoc Appreciation Week (September 21–25), and AI-MI is taking the occasion to thank the postdoctoral researchers working across the institute. Postdocs sit at the center of AI-MI’s mission — building the models,…
Registration Now Open: 2026 CAMPUS Symposium — October 22, 2026
Join industry, government, and academic leaders at the inaugural CAMPUS Symposium to learn more about Cornell University’s advanced materials innovation ecosystem and collaboration pathways. Explore Cornell’s research capabilities, connect with technical experts,...
Yoav Artzi is General Chair of COLM 2026
AI-MI senior personnel Yoav Artzi (Cornell Tech) is serving as General Chair of the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), which meets October 6–9, 2026 at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco — congratulations! Source: colm.cc
Now Recruiting: AI-MI Postdoctoral Fellowship
AI-MI seeks postdoctoral researchers to drive rapid, AI-enabled discovery of next-generation materials for energy, sustainability and quantum technologies. Applications are due October 15, 2026.
Co-Evolving Structured Knowledge and Reasoning in Language Models — accepted at COLM 2026
“Co-Evolving Structured Knowledge and Reasoning in Language Models” has been accepted as a conference paper at the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2026. AI-MI authors: Kilian Q. Weinberger, AI-MI Associate Director; Yoav Artzi and Jennifer J. Sun, AI-MI senior...
AI-MI–Supported Research Cuts Diffusion Sampling Cost 10× by Tuning the Timestep Schedule
An AI-MI–supported study shows how to cut the cost of generating an image with a diffusion model by roughly ten times — not by changing the model, but by choosing better points along its sampling schedule. Sampling from a diffusion model means…
AI-MI–Supported Study Confirms Superconductivity Across a Family Built Around an AI-Predicted Compound
An artificial-intelligence method predicted PtPb3Bi would superconduct. A new AI-MI–supported study in Chemistry of Materials confirms it, and finds superconductivity across the wider MPb4-xBix family (M = Au, Pd, Rh).
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AI-MI Seminar Series: Sharon Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
AI-MI Seminar Series: Ying Diao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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A day of bold ideas, sharp debate and new collaborations at the frontier of AI and materials science, at Cornell Tech in New York City.