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Talks & Podcasts·YouTube·2026-10-08

AI Scientists Are Here: Autonomous Labs & Synthesis Superintelligence — Periodic Labs

A 1-hour-25-minute Latent Space interview with Periodic Labs co-founders Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, hosted by swyx and Brandon, on AI scientists, autonomous labs, and materials discovery.

Latent Space·2026-10-08·Duration 1:25:21

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  1. Introduction

  2. AI and reinforcement learning in the physical world

  3. The end-to-end materials discovery loop

  4. Why physics isn’t “solved”

  5. The matter compiler and AI characterization

  6. DFT, simulation, and experimental ground truth

  7. Dream materials, compute, and quantum computing

  8. Giving every lab instrument “140 IQ”

  9. Automating the lab

  10. Data, models, and negative results

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