Periodic Labs disclosed in a September 15th engineering post that its Neon 1-trillion-parameter model's final training run peaked at 1,300 Nvidia H200 GPUs, achieving over 95% cluster utilization, 4.1…
TypeSafe launched Jev, a "System One Model" that only decides, classifies, routes, and scores, claiming it is over 100x faster and over 200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs, and the announcement sat …
Liam Fedus, OpenAI's former VP of Post-Training, unveiled Periodic Labs' blueprint for an "AI Foundation Lab for Atoms" in a conversation on the No Priors podcast, arguing that scaling laws must expan…
Two startups, San Francisco-based Periodic Labs and Cambridge, Mass.-based Quantum Formatics, are using AI and robots to discover new superconductors that can operate at temperatures above 10 kelvins,…
Anthropic released the Model Hardware Standard, a framework of rules for how AI agents should safely interact with physical systems such as microscopes, liquid-handling equipment, quantum computing ha…
Periodic Labs, an AI and physical sciences company, is hiring a Data Engineer, Materials in Menlo Park, CA, offering $250,000–350,000 plus equity, to restructure materials databases for LLM agents. Th…
Periodic Labs, an AI and physical sciences company, is hiring a Research Engineer for Lab Automation in Menlo Park, CA, offering $200,000–$250,000 per year plus equity. The role involves translating s…
Periodic Labs, an AI-for-science company founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, launched in September 2025 with a $300M seed round backed by a16z, Felicis, DST Global, and NVIDIA's venture arm, w…
Periodic Labs, an AI and physical sciences company, is hiring a Research Engineer - Midtraining in Menlo Park, CA, offering $250k–350k/yr plus equity, to improve scientific reasoning in frontier model…
Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments, including $1.35 billion for a global…
Kevin Weil, former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup, aiming to raise $150 million in the round, according to three people…
Jeff Dean, former Chief Scientist at Google and co-founder of Google Brain, has reportedly launched a startup called Discovery Loop with other high-profile Google executives, targeting AI-powered brea…
Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55 million in seed funding for his startup Elorian AI at a $300 million valuation before building any product, with backing from Menlo Ventures, Altimeter…
AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal rejected a reported Meta offer exceeding $1 million per year to cofound Periodic Labs, a startup backed by NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos, according to multiple Indian news outlet…
Anjney Midha, founder of AMP, argues that the AI scaling race is not just about acquiring more GPUs but about maximizing the efficiency of existing hardware, citing xAI's sub-10% Model FLOPs Utilizati…
A prominent Google researcher has left for OpenAI, intensifying the talent war between the two AI giants. The departure follows a trend of brain drain from Google, which invented the transformer archi…