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The lab prioritizes producing large quantities of high-quality, diverse data; full autonomy is not a goal, and automation is used to advance those data objectives.

Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026

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“time and it's easy to automate so I think there's like this pragmatism to it but I mean ultimately what we want from the lab is a huge quantity of data high quality data diverse data and that those are our goals and full autonomy is”
“a non-goal it's sort of in the service that we use automation in the service of achieving the goals on the data”
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