Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery

Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery

Joseph Krause and Jorge Colindres, co-founders of Radical AI, unveil their "materials flywheel" – an integrated system combining frontier AI with autonomous labs to revolutionize materials discovery.


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Joseph Krause and Jorge Colindres, co-founders of Radical AI, unveil their "materials flywheel" – an integrated system combining frontier AI with autonomous labs to revolutionize materials discovery. They detail how this closed-loop system achieves unprecedented experimental throughput, addressing the costly and slow development cycle that plagues critical industries. Learn how their property-driven AI engine, multimodal data integration, and robotic labs are vertically integrated to create foundational materials for everything from semiconductors to hypersonic flight.

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CHAPTERS:
(00:00) About the Episode
(03:45) Introduction and Company Overview
(05:01) Materials Science Problems
(10:35) Scale-up and Processing Challenges
(16:38) Customer-Driven Material Discovery (Part 1)
(18:26) Sponsor: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
(19:35) Customer-Driven Material Discovery (Part 2)
(23:17) Company Mission and Vision (Part 1)
(31:54) Sponsor: Shopify
(33:50) Company Mission and Vision (Part 2)
(34:44) The AI-Lab Flywheel
(40:27) AI Models and Architecture
(49:49) Scientific Intuition and Experience
(58:11) Active Learning and Breakthroughs
(01:04:45) Data Challenges and Sources
(01:14:38) Search Space and Automation
(01:25:14) Inference Scaling and Properties
(01:31:01) Active Learning Implementation
(01:37:01) Move 37s in Materials
(01:44:31) IP Strategy and Business
(01:48:24) Air Force Partnership
(01:51:23) Culture and Closing
(01:53:22) Outro

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