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Developing a molecular-level understanding of the properties of water is central to numerous scientific and technological applications. However, accurately modeling water through computer simulations has been a significant challenge due to the complex nature of the hydrogen-bonding network that water molecules form under different thermodynamic conditions. This complexity has led to over five decades of research and many modeling attempts. The introduction of the MB-pol data-driven many-body potential energy function marked a significant advancement toward a universal molecular model capable of predicting the structural, thermodynamic, dynamical, and spectroscopic properties of water across all phases. By integrating physics-based and data-driven (i.e., machine-learned) components, which correctly capture the delicate balance among different many-body interactions, MB-pol achieves chemical and spectroscopic accuracy, enabling realistic molecular simulations of water, from gas-phase clusters to liquid water and ice. In this review, we present a comprehensive overview of the data-driven many-body formalism adopted by MB-pol, highlight the main results and predictions made from computer simulations with MB-pol to date, and discuss the prospects for future extensions to data-driven many-body potentials of generic and reactive molecular systems.
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