[Nobel Laureate Moves from Berkeley to Tsinghua, Aiming to Use AI to Compress Material Development Cycles by an Order of Magnitude] According to monitoring by Beating, 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Omar Yaghi has left the University of California, Berkeley, to join Tsinghua University full-time. Tsinghua has appointed him as a chaired professor and tasked him with leading the establishment of the AI Materials Chemistry Research Center, AIMATRY. The center will integrate teams from chemistry, chemical engineering, artificial intelligence, computer science, and materials science to use AI to revolutionize material design and synthesis. The goal is to streamline the entire chain from theoretical computation to research and production, compressing the development cycle of new materials by an order of magnitude. Yaghi, who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two other scientists for advancing metal-organic framework materials (MOFs), is renowned for his work. MOFs, often described as molecular sponges, have applications in carbon capture, water extraction from air, and hydrogen storage. Yaghi was already appointed as an honorary professor at Tsinghua in 2022, but this marks a transition from long-term collaboration to full-time employment. *Nature* contextualized this move within the backdrop of shrinking research funding in the U.S. and China's efforts to attract top talent. However, Yaghi has not publicly attributed his decision to move to China directly to U.S. funding cuts. [Original article link]