Launches a Global AI Alliance
LG Group is tapping into artificial intelligence (AI) and robot technologies to develop new chemical materials such as eco-friendly catalysts and next-generation materials.
LG Science Park announced on Sept. 11 that it has launched the Alliance for AI-Accelerated Materials Discovery (A3MD) together with the University of Toronto and McMaster University in Canada and Total, a French energy and oil company.
The A3MD is the world's first AI alliance created by world-class academic and industrial partners to promote material development.
With the aim of developing green catalysts and next-generation optical materials, the consortium will build various AI modeling and automation experiment platforms. LG looks to secure advanced AI technology for developing new materials and lay the foundation for joint R&D network with AI scholars.
Currently, it takes years or decades to develop new materials because researchers have to repeat, after discovering new materials, the process of synthesizing them and verifing their properties.
When AI technology is applied to material development, data on material properties can be more accurately identified, and development cost or periods can be greatly reduced compared to current research methods. Accordingly, companies can provide customized materials to customers faster.
The consortium will be joined by world-renowned professors such as Ted Sargent and Alan Asspuru-Guzik of the University of Toronto, and Drew Higgins of McMaster University. They are AI authorities on large-scale experimental automation using materials, computational chemistry and robots. Total, which is active in developing AI solutions for energy data analysis, also participates as an industrial partner.
Meanwhile, LG Science Park is conducting various research projects such as deep learning and machine learning through collaboration with leading global institutions including the University of Toronto, a leading artificial intelligence player.