I was a bit behind the times. I was astonished to find how easily you can just guess an ansatz, shape it with a neural net, and solve ab initio for the full wave function for a ground state of a multi-electron atom, with the energy computed to many decimal places. Small atoms and maybe even molecules on your laptop with no difficulty.
Eg. This and many other places
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.13672
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