一 | 【环球网科技综合报道】7月21日消息，据The Guardian报道，Meta与英伟达联合官宣，共同参与英国AI初创公司CuspAI的核心材料发现项目，瞄准半导体行业下一代制造材料的突破性研发。 According to media reports, the newspaper Beijing Daily published a story on Monday afternoon quoting Cai Qi, the Communist Party of China’s secretary in Beijing and a former mayor of the city.,“In the next five years, Beijing will unremittingly grasp the normalization of epidemic prevention and control,” the story originally quoted Cai as saying, according to the UK Guardian.,Now, the article only says the city will “make unremitting efforts to normalize epidemic prevention and control” to “control quickly and resolutely block the transmission channels of the epidemic.”,It goes on to note the various efforts that must be improved, including a “normalized nucleic acid testing and key screening” process, regularizing cleaning and inspection of public spaces, and controlling entry and exit of the vast city of 21.5 million, which is deeply connected with the surrounding Hebei Province and nearby coastal metropolis of Tianjin.,China’s Economy Got $26 Billion Boost From Gov Buying 11 Billion Covid-19 Tests - Report13 June, 22:01 GMT,China adopted the “Zero Covid” policy in 2021, when the arrival of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, brought an increasingly stubborn new outbreak. However, the principles underlying it - that mass lockdowns, with logistical networks funneling food, supplies and medicine to residents under quarantine while medical workers test the entire population for infection - were forged in early 2020, when China fought off the world’s first outbreak of the virus.,Throughout 2021, the policy was extremely successful, limiting mainland China to just two COVID-19 deaths that year. By comparison, at least 415,000 Americans died of the virus in 2021.,However, it wasn’t until early 2022 that the Omicron variant, even more infectious than Delta and with a penchant for causing asymptomatic cases, really put China’s “Zero Covid” policy to the test. Between the beginning of April and the beginning of June, the Chinese government spent some $26 billion on COVID-19 tests as huge cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Xi’an were placed in lockdown for weeks at a time and their tens of millions of residents tested several times in an attempt to track down, isolate and treat all cases of the disease.,40% of Kids Aged 0-3 Suffer From Long COVID, Which Lasts at Least Two Months - Lancet Report23 June, 12:37 GMT,Despite its success at preventing mass death among its 1.4 billion people, the Chinese government has been extensively criticized by the West, which has variously accused them of lying about the extent of the outbreak, terrorizing its population with the lockdowns, and claiming that the policy in unsustainable. When World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested in May that China would be better off if it abandoned “Zero Covid,” Beijing fired back.,“The purpose [of Zero Covid] is solely to protect people’s life and health to the greatest extent possible and underpin sustained, sound and steady economic and social development,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at the time. “In China, we have the foundation, the conditions and the capability to achieve dynamic zero-COVID. We have every confidence in winning this hard battle and making greater contributions to the united global response.”,A study published in May by researchers at Shanghai’s Fudan University and at Indiana University in the United States warned that if China’s “Zero Covid” policy were removed and the respiratory virus allowed to spread unimpeded across Chinese society - as has happened in most other countries - it would “generate a tsunami of Covid-19 cases” that would kill at least 1.5 million people.,Just over 5,200 people in China have died of COVID-19 since it appeared in late 2019, while about 6.3 million have died globally, including 1 million in the United States.。
二 | 这家此前已获得亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯、英国政府战略投资的初创企业，本月初刚刚完成4.5亿美元融资，投后估值达到26亿美元。
三 | 本次三方共同启动的“AI材料铸造厂”合作计划，将依托AI技术重构传统材料研发流程：英伟达将为CuspAI开放最新的大规模GPU加速计算集群，为复杂的材料物理化学模拟模型提供顶级算力支撑；Meta的基础AI研究团队则将深度参与算法优化与大模型训练环节，提升材料筛选的精准度与效率。CuspAI的核心技术路径是通过AI模拟替代传统实验室反复试错的研发模式，将新材料的筛选验证周期从数年压缩至数月，效率提升数个量级。 该项目的核心攻坚方向直指当前半导体行业的核心瓶颈：团队将重点研发性能更优异的新型介电材料、芯片内部导电通道材料与高导热散热材料，帮助芯片制造商突破当前先进制程逼近物理极限的发展困境，为下一代更小制程、更高性能的芯片落地扫清材料障碍。
四 | CuspAI创始人兼CEO Chad Edwards表示，过去半个世纪半导体行业的每一次重大跨越，几乎都离不开关键新材料的突破，而AI技术正在把材料发现的效率推向前所未有的高度。
五 | 目前“AI材料铸造厂”生态已经吸引45家机构加入，覆盖全球顶尖学术实验室、国家级材料研究机构与头部半导体企业，将共同搭建开放共享的材料科学数据体系，打破传统行业数据孤岛的痛点。CuspAI同时官宣将在新加坡设立区域总部，计划18个月内将全球团队规模从当前120人扩张至300人以上，加速全球研发网络布局。
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