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>We’re starting in the physical sciences.

>WHY THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES?

>Technological progress is limited by our ability to design the physical world. We’re starting here because experiments have high signal-to-noise and are (relatively) fast, physical simulations effectively model many systems, but more broadly, physics is a verifiable environment. AI has progressed fastest in domains with data and verifiable results - for example, in math and code. Here, nature is the RL environment.

>One of our goals is to discover superconductors that work at higher temperatures than today's materials. Significant advances could help us create next-generation transportation and build power grids with minimal losses.

>Periodic Labs has already set up its lab, too, and is working with experimental data, simulations and testing some predictions.

>The main initial mission is to find new superconductor materials — potentially a gold mine discovery. Improved superconductors could power the next era of potent, but lower energy-consuming tech.