Periodic Labs

“Ultimately science is driven against experiment in the real world. And so that's what we're doing with periodic labs. We're taking these precursor technologies and we're saying, okay, if you care about advancing science, we need to have experiment in the loop.”

“The technology that we think is necessary to do it has really just emerged in the last couple of years, and this data Isn't like on a Reddit forum or something like you need to actually go produce experimental data, simulation data.”

“Basically co-pilots for engineers, researchers in advanced industries. So maybe perhaps just being in Silicon Valley, we, you know, we really think about like computer oriented work. Everything is digital. Everything is bits, but there's so many industries. Li…”

“We're going to have a powder synthesis lab, and turns out this is one of those methods where robots can do it, like very cheap, simple methods.”

“We take a pre-trained model and then mid-train it, you know, high computer.”

“And what we're doing, and by having the lab, is we create a physically grounded reward function. That becomes the basis on which we're optimizing against. And so, If a simulator has some deficiencies or some issues, we always error correct, because for us, the…”