CERN and Mistral plan a foundation model for collider physics
Original title: CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science
The planned Large Physics Model would train on billions of simulated LHC collisions and is not released.
CERN and Mistral signed a statement of intent on October 15, 2026, to develop foundation models for scientific discovery, starting with high-energy physics. The centerpiece is a single pretrained Large Physics Model for collider physics, meant to support collision reconstruction, particle identification, anomaly flagging, and detector-design evaluation. CERN cites about one exabyte of stored LHC data and a tenfold rise in collisions expected with the HL-LHC around 2030.
Unconfirmed: The Large Physics Model is an ambition under a statement of intent and has not been released.
- The agreement is a statement of intent, not a model release.
- Initial work focuses on high-energy physics, with possible wider scientific use.
- CERN says about one exabyte of LHC experimental data is stored.
- The HL-LHC is expected to start around 2030.
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