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Periodic Labs’ speaker considers the evolution of software engineering a useful analogy for the company’s approach to materials research and engineering.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“I think like a really great analog would be software engineering.”Play from 1:17:19Report a misattribution
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