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Periodic is scaling up, but its physical experimentation cannot expand environments or rollouts as freely as a digital environment, making sample efficiency important.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“So we're scaling things up significantly,”
“but still it's very different than a digital environment where you can arbitrarily add more environments or more rollouts. We don't have that same capacity.”
“So sample efficiency is another key thing.”Play from 4:35Report a misattribution
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