Liam Fedus

Elad Gil × Liam Fedus

Periodic Labs is building an active experimental loop that grounds AI in physical feedback, combining language models for orchestration with symmetry-aware atomic models for materials and process engineering.The initial software layer could improve semiconductors, aerospace, and energy productivity by an order of magnitude or two, but domain-specific data, automation, and discovery economics remain unresolved execution risks.

Anjney Midha × Liam Fedus × Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Periodic Labs’ $300 million seed, led by Andreessen Horowitz, backs an AI-scientist thesis where nature supplies the final reward through automated experiments rather than internet-scale training.Scaling may continue while noisy data and missing negative results slow out-of-domain discovery; the about 135 Kelvin superconductivity benchmark provides a measurable north star, while copilots for advanced industries offer a nearer-term land-and-expand business.

Anjney Midha × Liam Fedus × Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Periodic Labs is betting that “Nature is our RL environment,” using experiments to supply the ground truth and reward signals that internet-trained models lack for physics and chemistry.High-temperature superconductivity offers a falsifiable benchmark, while an intelligence layer for industrial R&D could commercialize the stack through scoped deployments, mid-training, simulation, autonomous synthesis, and experimental iteration.