{"id":10456,"date":"2025-03-17T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T21:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/openai-exec-starts-new-startup\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T21:44:56","slug":"openai-exec-starts-new-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/openai-exec-starts-new-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Exec Starts New Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liam Fedus, OpenAI&#8217;s Vice President of research for post-training, is departing the company to establish a new startup focused on materials science AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/briefings\/openai-post-training-head-departs\" target=\"_blank\">The Information was the first to report<\/a> on Fedus&#8217; plans. He subsequently <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LiamFedus\/status\/1901740085416218672\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed the news on X<\/a>, providing additional context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his statement, Fedus expressed his enthusiasm for applying AI technology to the field of physics, his undergraduate major. He noted that &#8220;AI for science is a strategically crucial area for OpenAI, and a key step towards achieving artificial superintelligence,&#8221; and that OpenAI plans to invest in and collaborate with his new venture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fedus&#8217; new company will enter a competitive landscape, with established players like Google DeepMind and Microsoft already active in the AI materials science space. In 2023, DeepMind announced that its AI system, Gnome, had <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/discover\/blog\/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">discovered new crystals with potential applications<\/a> in materials science. More recently, Microsoft introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/22\/this-week-in-ai-openai-gains-an-invaluable-infrastructure-advantage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MatterGen and MatterSim<\/a>, two AI tools designed for materials discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, some experts have <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/05\/experts-dont-think-ai-is-ready-to-be-a-co-scientist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised doubts<\/a> about the ability of current AI systems to make genuinely groundbreaking scientific discoveries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/17\/openai-exec-leaves-to-found-materials-science-startup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Fedus, OpenAI&#8217;s Vice President of research for post-training, is departing the company to establish a new startup focused on materials science AI. The Information was the first to report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1742,164],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-material-science","tag-openai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/openAI-spiral-teal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}