Periodic Labs AI

About Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs is building AI scientists paired with autonomous physical laboratories, aiming to accelerate discovery in the physical sciences beyond what internet-scale text data alone can teach a model. The company is starting with the physical sciences, where experiments have high signal-to-noise, are relatively fast, and results are verifiable—with an early goal of discovering superconductors that work at higher temperatures than today's materials, which could have implications for transportation, power grids, space travel, and nuclear fusion. Its founding team includes people who co-created ChatGPT, DeepMind's GNoME, OpenAI's Operator (now Agent), the neural attention mechanism, and MatterGen, and who have scaled autonomous physics labs and contributed to major materials discoveries over the last decade.