Former OpenAI andDeepMindresearchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science | TechCrunch
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- Periodic Labs was founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus.
- Cubuk led the materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind.
- Fedus is a former VP of Research at OpenAI, and one of the researchers who helped create ChatGPT.
- Its small team is filled with researchers who have worked on other major AI and materials science projects, from building OpenAI’s agent Operator to working on Microsoft's MatterGen, an LLM materials science discovery AI.
Periodic Labs came out of stealth on Tuesday with a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industrys whos who Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Nvidia, Accel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric [+2371 chars]
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