Facebook and Carnegie Mellon launch the Open Catalyst Project to find new ways to store renewable energy

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• RESEARCH ML APPLICATIONS Facebook and Carnegie Mellon launch the Open Catalyst Project to find new ways to store renewable energy Facebook AI and the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Department of Chemical Engineering are announcing the Open Catalyst Project, a collaboration intended to use AI to accelerate quantum mechanical simulations by 1,000x in order to discover new electrocatalysts needed for more efficient and scalable ways to store and use renewable energy.
• Our goal with the Open Catalyst Project is to discover low-cost catalysts to drive these chemical reactions.
• Facebook’s data centers will reach net zero emissions by the end of the year, making this a responsible and sustainable way to run the compute-intensive calculations necessary to build this data set.
• As energy needs continue to climb and the fight against climate change grows more urgent, this problem offers a chance to advance AI in a way that will have a significant real-world impact.