{"id":657580,"date":"2025-03-18T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/openai-exec-leaves-to-found-materials-science-startup\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:50:14","slug":"openai-exec-leaves-to-found-materials-science-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openai-exec-leaves-to-found-materials-science-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"#OpenAI exec leaves to found materials science startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liam Fedus, OpenAI\u2019s VP of research for post-training, is leaving the company to found a materials <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> AI startup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/briefings\/openai-post-training-head-departs\">The Information initially reported Fedus\u2019 plans<\/a>. In a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LiamFedus\/status\/1901740085416218672\">statement on X<\/a>, Fedus confirmed the report and added a few additional details. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy undergrad was in physics and I\u2019m keen to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> there,\u201d Fedus said in the statement. \u201cBecause AI for science is one of the most strategically important areas to OpenAI and achieving [artificial superintelligence], OpenAI is planning to invest in and partner with my new company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fedus\u2019 firm will compete with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and others in the nascent AI materials science space. In 2023, DeepMind claimed that its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/discover\/blog\/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning\/\">AI system, Gnome,<\/a> found crystals that could be used to make new materials. More recently, Microsoft unveiled a pair of materials-discovering AI tools called MatterGen and MatterSim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some experts are skeptical that today\u2019s AI is capable of truly novel scientific discoveries, however.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Information initially reported Fedus\u2019 plans. In a statement on X, Fedus confirmed the report and added a few additional details. \u201cMy undergrad was in physics and I\u2019m keen to apply this technology there,\u201d Fedus said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/openAI-spiral-teal.jpg?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,154955,141199],"class_list":["post-657580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-material-science","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}