Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk

We are proud to announce @periodiclabs. Our mission is to accelerate science. Our founding team co-created ChatGPT, DeepMind’s GNoME, OpenAI’s Operator (now Agent), the neural attention mechanism, MatterGen; have scaled autonomous physics labs; and have contributed to important… Today, @ekindogus and I are excited to introduce @periodiclabs. Our goal is to create an AI scientist. Science works by conjecturing how the world might be, running experiments, and learning from the results. Intelligence is necessary, but not sufficient. New knowledge is Industrial-scale science. Coming to a lab near you this summer. 69 Replies · 73 Reposts · 1.3K Likes yeah this checks out my first few months at periodic, the weekly midtraining meeting was: 1. guy who trained the first trillion param LLM 2. guy who invented the attention mechanism 3. me you learn very quickly surrounded by this density of talent. we're hiring btw. 7:43 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 80.3K Views From building AI systems that reason over noisy physical experiments to creating laboratories where every instrument can become intelligent, Periodic Labs is betting that the next frontier of AI won’t come from simply training on more internet data, it will come from letting models experiment with the…