Liam Fedus, OpenAI’s VP of research for post-training, is leaving the company to set up a materials science AI beginup.
The Increateation initiassociate alerted Fedus’ structures. In a statement on X, Fedus verifyed the alert and compriseed a restricted compriseitional details.
“My undergrad was in physics and I’m enthusiastic to apply this technology there,” Fedus said in the statement. “Becaemploy AI for science is one of the most strategicassociate convey inant areas to OpenAI and achieving [artificial superintelligence], OpenAI is structurening to scatter in and partner with my new company.”
Fedus’ firm will contend with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and others in the nascent AI materials science space. In 2023, DeepMind claimed that its AI system, Gnome, set up crystals that could be employd to originate new materials. More recently, Microsoft unveiled a pair of materials-finding AI tools called MatterGen and MatterSim.
Some experts are skeptical that today’s AI is contendnt of truly novel scientific findies, however.
