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Skala is finally available to try out 🎉 Please let is know what works and where it can be improved!

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@msftresearch.bsky.social AI for science presents Orbformer, a foundation model for high accuracy quantum Chemistry. Strongly correlated states such as bond dissociation can be accurately computed without manually selecting active spaces or basis sets.

🚀 Strong correlation is the Everest of quantum chemistry. Next to the coupled cluster highway, the multireference molecular terrain is underserved—gravel roads and promenades. With Orbformer, we're building a new infrastructure by marrying neural network wavefunctions with cost amortization at scale

Future versions of our Skala functional, bsky.app/profile/jan...., will be trained on increasingly diverse yet steadfastly accurate data, and for multireference systems we'll need every possible tool from the quantum chemistry toolbox, and then some more. With Orbformer, we're making our own tools

So proud of this work with our amazing team 🤩

We're excited to reveal this major advance in computational chemistry, an AI model called Skala @MSFTResearch for the exchange-correlation functional, accurate enough, and super fast, for precise in silico predictions of chemical experiments. An early access program is now open.