SuperMatics, a Berkeley company building AI exclusively for superconductors, argues that the gap lies not in discovering materials but in making tough, affordable wire. It points to rising demand from AI data centers and fusion developers, which rely on costly, scarce high-temperature superconducting tape. Its models, built on physics including the Modulated Electron Lattice (MEL) framework, predict properties, write synthesis recipes and simulate finished wire, and every result, failures included, retrains them. The company works with researchers at UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech and is in talks with materials and technology firms on joint programs. It will present at the Plug and Play Silicon Valley November Summit on November 5.
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