Material Difference

Technological breakthroughs happen in materials. We're building AI that understands the underground to solve the $5.3T critical mineral shortage.

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Built by Material Science Scholars

A founder pair bringing field geology, engineering, and explainable AI into the critical-minerals problem.

Co-founder and CEO

Gabriel Yoong

Gabriel brings mechanical engineering and founder leadership to the mineral-supply problem, turning underground data into explainable models that mining teams can interrogate, trust, and act on.

Co-founder and CTO

Luke Cullen

Luke pairs a Cambridge PhD in AI with mining geophysics, connecting field science and machine learning to accelerate orebody knowledge without treating geology like a black box.

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Jun 9, 2026

Scale, Speed, Precision: Automated Microstructure Analysis Moves Different

How a trove of 10,000 SEM images changes the way we conduct science in the world's most advanced materials science lab.

Turning academic papers into code makes data accurate, auditable, and editable.

Apr 13, 2026

LitXBench: A Benchmark for Extracting Experiments from Materials Literature

We built a benchmark to measure how well LLMs can extract experiments from materials science papers, and found that most pipelines task LLMs incorrectly, leading to inaccurate extractions.