Haozhe “Harry” Wang’s electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: artificial intelligence. Using publicly available AI foundation models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM), Wang’s team built ATOMIC (Autonomous Technology for Optical Microscopy & Intelligent Characterization)—an AI microscope platform that can analyze materials as accurately as a trained graduate student in a fraction of the time.