←Back to NewsAI News/DatanewsDataBenchmarksMicrosoft Research's Skala 1.1 Beats Top Chemistry AI at Half the CostMicrosoft Research updates its deep-learning DFT functional with 2.5x more training data, native CP2K integration, and a public performance benchmark.SourceMicrosoft ResearchPublishedAug 20, 2026, 4:00 PMAuthorAlphaSignal NewsroomRead1 min readMicrosoft Research updates its deep-learning DFT functional with 2.5x more training data, native CP2K integration, and a public performance benchmark.Reporting is indexed from AlphaSignal. Rights remain with the original publisher and cited sources.Read original report ↗Next readsGoogle DeepMind · newsGoogle DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas Maps 9 Billion DNA Mutations Without Any GPUTencent Hy · newsTencent's EvolveScaler Exposes How AI Fails Tracking Changing Facts Over 1,200 EventsVals AI · newsVals AI's CUA-Bench Humbles Every Frontier Agent Below 20 Points
