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A collaborative agent with two lightweight synergistic models for autonomous crystal materials research

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01298-6 Shi et al. demonstrate a dual architecture approach for materials research, integrating two lightweight large language models for collaborative reasoning and scientific tool execution. The method achieves competitive performance while remaining affordable and locally deployable.

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