FORMER OPENAI AND DEEPMIND RESEARCHERS RAISE WHOPPING $300M SEED TO AUTOMATE SCIENCE

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Periodic Labs emerged from stealth to build AI scientists that conduct physical experiments autonomously in robotic labs. Founders Ekin Dogus Cubuk (who led Google Brain's materials team that discovered 2 million new crystals with AI) and Liam Fedus (former OpenAI VP who helped create) aim to automate scientific discovery, starting with superconductors, and claim that LLMs need fresh data for physical experiments because they've exhausted the internet as a training source.