Microsoft broadens Skala 1.1 access for predictive chemistry
Microsoft Research released Skala 1.1 as an open research-focused neural exchange-correlation functional, expanded its training data, integrated it into CP2K, and published code, checkpoints, Python tooling, and a living performance benchmark.
Why it matters: Skala makes a specialized AI-for-science result inspectable and runnable inside established simulation workflows, creating a clearer path to compare accuracy, compute cost, implementation parity, and transfer beyond provider benchmarks.