MatterSeek is now available via its international website and on Hugging Face, the global open-source AI model hosting and collaboration platform, for use by researchers worldwide. Users can download the client for free, with new registrants receiving five complimentary trial downloads. This launch marks a pivotal step in Yuyao Technology's globalization strategy within the AI-driven new materials sector, aiming to accelerate the materials R&D cycle from years to months.
Materials R&D has long been hindered by lengthy development cycles, fragmented data, limited experimental efficiency, and the difficulty of making predictions across different scales. Under the traditional trial-and-error paradigm, bringing a new material from the laboratory to mass production can take 10–15 years; furthermore, data reuse is challenging, and manual experimentation often fails to meet the demands of high-throughput R&D.
To address these pain points, Yuyao Technology developed MatterSeek, an "AI + MGI" (Materials Genome Initiative) R&D platform. Powered by a proprietary Hierarchical Neural Network (HNN), the platform covers both inorganic and organic materials. It stands as one of the few large-scale, physics-reasoning-driven predictive models for new materials that operates independently of large language model (LLM) architectures. Unlike mainstream LLMs, MatterSeek integrates the entire R&D workflow-prediction, synthesis, and characterization-and incorporates a closed-loop system connected to the company's own physical laboratories, providing a comprehensive, systematic solution for materials R&D.
In terms of functionality, MatterSeek supports natural language recognition, enabling the rapid parsing of chemical elements, formulas, and performance metrics. Users can configure multi-element combinations-including inclusion or exclusion constraints-via an interactive periodic table, and set specific upper and lower limits for properties such as dielectric constant, melting point, and superconducting critical temperature. The platform also utilizes parallel coordinate plots to facilitate multi-dimensional performance comparisons, offering researchers a one-stop digital R&D toolkit.
Currently, MatterSeek is being applied across sectors including aerospace, semiconductors, new energy, and eco-friendly biodegradable materials. It serves dozens of industry enterprises and has successfully supported over 100 R&D projects to date. At the foundational technology level, the platform is dedicated to addressing the complex interrelationships between material composition, structure, processing, and performance. It features predictive capabilities for small-sample datasets, incorporates 1,035 material descriptors, boasts a 92% in-house development rate for model parameters, and integrates 192 domain-specific sub-models.
Yuyao (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. is a national-level high-tech enterprise and a recognized "specialized, refined, unique, and innovative" (SRUI) small and medium-sized enterprise in Beijing. The company focuses on innovation at the intersection of artificial intelligence and advanced materials. Its core business encompasses the development of large-scale AI models for new materials, technical consulting, and the industrialization of material research outcomes. The team has filed 27 national patents, and its primary offerings include proprietary AI material models, high-precision experimental databases, and customized material R&D services.
Currently, researchers worldwide can access the MatterSeek client via Yuyao Technology's international website and the Hugging Face platform. Moving forward, the company intends to continuously enhance its model capabilities, align with the needs of the global scientific community, and collaborate with researchers to explore new possibilities in advanced materials innovation.