Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

Podcast : The a16z Show (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture Pub date : 2025-09-30 Notes from Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist : Periodic Labs office is on the same floor as ours in WeWork Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we’ll need a different approach. In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha talks to Liam Fedus, former VP of post-training research and co-creator of ChatGPT at OpenAI, and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, former head of materials science and chemistry research at Google DeepMind, on their new startup Periodic Labs and their plan to automate discovery in the hard sciences. Follow Liam on X: https://x.com/LiamFedus Follow Dogus on X: https://x.com/ekindogus Learn more about Periodic: https://periodic.com/ Stay Updated: Find a16z on X Find a16z on LinkedIn Listen to the a16z Podcast on Spotify Listen to the a16z Podcast on Apple Podcasts Follow our host: https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andreessen Horowitz, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.