Saint-Gobain uses Microsoft Discovery in cement-additive research
A 20 October Microsoft report describes Saint-Gobain researchers using the Microsoft Discovery AI platform to search patents and scientific abstracts while exploring cement additives. The team generated hypotheses about possible ingredients that still require testing.
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The project assembled 62,000 patents and 44,000 abstracts into a knowledge base. A Saint-Gobain manager said AI helped build it in hours, compared with an estimated year using the previous research process.
The candidate molecules are still being tested; the report does not establish that a new additive reduces clinker use or increases strength. It separately cites the company’s existing EnviroAdd product as reducing clinker needs by about 20%, a company product claim.
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