About Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs builds AI scientists and autonomous robotic laboratories to accelerate scientific discovery in the physical sciences. Its platform fuses frontier AI models, physics-based simulations, and robotic labs into a closed-loop system where AI agents generate hypotheses, run experiments, and feed real-world results back to improve models. The company targets industries such as semiconductors, energy, defense, and space, with a near-term focus on discovering high-temperature superconductors.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$300M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Ekin Dogus Cubuk
Former research scientist at Google DeepMind, led materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, worked on AI tool GNoME.
Liam Fedus
Former vice president of research at OpenAI and key architect of ChatGPT. Previously led materials and chemistry teams at Google Brain and Google DeepMind.
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