'Novel' materials synthesized in AI research not new - study
Briefly

"Unfortunately, we found that the central claim of the A-Lab paper, namely that a large number of previously unknown materials were synthesized, does not hold," they wrote in their analysis released on ChemRxiv [PDF].
"When they combed through the X-ray diffraction data for each material, they found that most of them have been misclassified."
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