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AI Scientists Just Got $300M and a Robot Army

Summary by eweek.com
Periodic Labs, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt, aims to solve AI’s dirty secret: models excel at math and code but struggle with real-world physics and chemistry. Why? They’ve exhausted the internet’s ~10 trillion training tokens, and the scientific literature is too noisy to learn from. The timing is perfect OpenAI’s Chief Scientist recently admitted they have an “eval deficit” and need “actual discove…
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eweek.com broke the news in on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
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