Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
The a16z Show30 Sep 2025

Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we’ll need a different approach.

In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha talks to Liam Fedus, former VP of post-training research and co-creator of ChatGPT at OpenAI, and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, former head of materials science and chemistry research at Google DeepMind, on their new startup Periodic Labs and their plan to automate discovery in the hard sciences.

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Learn more about Periodic: https://periodic.com/

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