From ChatGPT to Atoms: The AI Lab for the Physical World
Season 1 · Episode 2 · 10:55 ·
ChatGPT co-creator Liam Fedus left OpenAI to build Periodic Labs — an AI foundation lab that discovers new materials through closed-loop experimentation. Dick and Ivanna break down why physicists are flooding into AI, how self-improving systems are accelerating materials science, and what it means when AI can run its own experiments. Source: No Priors (2026-04-03)