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Discovery15 October 2026

CERN wants to teach AI to read particle collisions

CERN and Mistral have started work on Flare, an AI model designed to learn from billions of simulated particle collisions. It is a research project, not a new chat service.

On October 15, CERN and Mistral signed a statement of intent for a long-term partnership. The goal is Flare, which they describe as the first foundation model for collider physics. A language model learns patterns in text. Flare will instead be trained on data from simulated collisions at the Large…