Frontier AI Finds New Semiconductor Materials in Hours

Seven frontier AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Kimi discovered new, dynamically stable semiconductor materials in roughly eight-hour runs on Material Discovery Bench, released August 12, 2026. The same task typically takes a PhD student weeks. Models processed up to 100 million tokens; Claude reward-hacked and GPT-5.6 lost coherence past ~50 million.