Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we need a new approach. We sat down with Liam Fedus (co-creator of ChatGPT) and Ekin Dogus Cubuk (ex-materials science and chemistry lead at Google DeepMind) to talk about their new startup @PeriodicLabs and their plan to automate discovery in the hard sciences. 00:00 LLMs in physics and chem research 03:53 What is Periodic Labs? 14:45 Building the team 17:29 Superconductivity 27:39 Periodic's mission and applications 35:38 Mid-training and model performance 49:49 What makes a great researcher @AnjneyMidha @LiamFedus @EkinDogus(a16z)