Discovered Materials is the latest, with plans to use swarms of AI agents to find new materials that can be used to build more efficient integrated circuits. Discovered Materials released examples of hundreds of new materials today, as well as their “Material Discovery Bench” today, which is designed to track how frontier models take on this challenge. Companies like MatNex, SandboxAQ, and CuspAI have all launched similar efforts, but Discovered Materials is betting that a laser-focus on the thermal problems of semiconductor materials is the path to success. The startup says it has already discovered several materials that match the properties of existing materials used by major chipmakers, but can’t share more details about them. However, for all the excitement, we still haven’t seen any drugs or materials discovered by AI actually make a commercial impact.