# Periodic Labs

> Markdown twin of https://roboterminal.app/companies/periodic-labs · https://roboterminal.app/companies/periodic-labs.md

## On shared sources

- [Anthropic](https://roboterminal.app/companies/anthropic) (6)
- [OpenAI](https://roboterminal.app/companies/openai) (6)
- [UMI](https://roboterminal.app/companies/umi) (6)
- [a16z](https://roboterminal.app/companies/a16z) (5)
- [Apple](https://roboterminal.app/companies/apple) (5)
- [SpaceX](https://roboterminal.app/companies/spacex) (1)
- [xAI](https://roboterminal.app/companies/xai) (1)

## Pulse

- [@michellelsun on X](https://x.com/michellelsun/status/2112967195232023038)
  appreciate @pronounced_kyle's framing of "read" "write" access between digital and physical worlds. One of the fundamental challenges for automating manufacturing is to solve for the digital-to-physic…
- [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2112675339298349279)
  Ekin Dogus Cubuk of @periodiclabs on why AI has to learn from the physical world, and building their own lab to close that loop: "One of the more fundamental ways of making things around us is powder …
- [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2112665201170604185)
  AI models are getting close to designing hardware better than humans, and that shifts where the hard problems are: - Better simulation, so physical builds become confirmation instead of experiments - …
- [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2112655271042650544)
  "It took me three months to design it, but it's nine months until I can actually start to use it." Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the manufacturing bottleneck between designing hardware with AI and…
- [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2112645028829069593)
  For AI to become a superhuman hardware engineer, it has to learn from the physical world, and real-world data is hard to get: - It's non-uniform and constantly changing - It's sparse: you can't measur…
- [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2112625042639167835)
  AI is on track to become a superhuman hardware designer, but design is only the beginning. The interface between bits and atoms is lossy, and turning designs into real hardware gets harder at every le…

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Source: Roboterminal · https://roboterminal.app/companies/periodic-labs.md