@garrytan: YC is the YC for hard tech
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Advaith Sridhar introduces Discovered Materials, a startup building AI scientists to discover new semiconductor materials, releasing hundreds of discoveries and a benchmark.
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YC is the YC for hard tech
Advaith Sridhar (@advaith_sridhar): Today, we’re introducing @discoveredmat . We build AI scientists that discover new materials for semiconductor chips.
We’re starting by releasing our work - hundreds of new materials discovered using frontier AI models, along with our benchmark for tracking progress in this
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