Periodic Labs is building physical labs to pursue an AI scientist

Brendan Foody says Liam Fedus, who helped create ChatGPT and later led post-training at OpenAI, is building Periodic Labs because better models alone won’t get us to an AI scientist. Foody says their conversation on The Frontier covered why Periodic is building physical labs and what Fedus learned at OpenAI as ChatGPT took off.