™AI Scientists Are Here: Autonomous Labs & Synthesis Superintelligence — Periodic Labs
A 1-hour-25-minute Latent Space interview with Periodic Labs co-founders Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, hosted by swyx and Brandon, on AI scientists, autonomous labs, and materials discovery.
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Introduction
AI and reinforcement learning in the physical world
The end-to-end materials discovery loop
Why physics isn’t “solved”
The matter compiler and AI characterization
DFT, simulation, and experimental ground truth
Dream materials, compute, and quantum computing
Giving every lab instrument “140 IQ”
Automating the lab
Data, models, and negative results
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