UK researchers have developed an AI tool that simulates nuclear fusion plasma 1,000X faster than a supercomputer. (Capacity Global)
To build a working reactor, engineers need to predict how superheated plasma (which is 10X hotter than the sun) behaves in 5 dimensions. Traditionally, a single simulation of this chaotic turbulence took supercomputers days to crunch.
The new tool, dubbed GyroSwim, shrinks that processing time to seconds. By using AI to “learn” the physics rather than brute-forcing the calculations, researchers can test millions of plasma simulations in the time it once took to test just a few.