Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science | TechCrunch
Periodic Labs raised $300 million to build AI-driven autonomous laboratories that automate materials discovery, aiming first to invent better, lower-energy superconductors.
A multimodal robotic platform for multi-element electrocatalyst discovery
An integrated platform (CRESt) combines large multimodal models, knowledge-assisted Bayesian optimization, and robotic automation to accelerate real-world materials discovery and high-throughput characterization.
CuspAI, startup building AI models for chemistry, raises $100 million Series A | Fortune
CuspAI raised $100 million in Series A funding at a $520 million valuation to develop AI-driven chemistry models for novel materials and sustainable energy applications.