{"id":30983,"date":"2025-03-18T19:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=30983"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:03:17","slug":"openai-%e5%90%8e%e8%ae%ad%e7%bb%83%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e8%b4%9f%e8%b4%a3%e4%ba%ba%e7%a6%bb%e8%81%8c%ef%bc%8c%e5%88%9b%e5%8a%9e%e6%9d%90%e6%96%99%e7%a7%91%e5%ad%a6-ai-%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/30983.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI post-training research leader leaves to start materials science AI startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 18th.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [OpenAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenAI<\/a> be in charge of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%90%8e%e8%ae%ad%e7%bb%83\" title=\"[Sees articles with [post-training] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >after-training<\/a>Liam Fedus, vice president of research, has announced that he is leaving the company to start an artificial intelligence startup focused on materials science.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30984\" title=\"7047daf5j00stbg0x0033d000gi00nzp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7047daf5j00stbg0x0033d000gi00nzp.jpg\" alt=\"7047daf5j00stbg0x0033d000gi00nzp\" width=\"594\" height=\"863\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1AI noted that Fedus released a statement on the X platform saying, \"My undergraduate degree was in physics, and I've always aspired to apply AI techniques to this field.\" He also mentioned that since AI in the sciences is one of the most strategic areas for OpenAI to realize General Artificial Intelligence (AGI).<strong>OpenAI plans to invest in and partner with its new company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the emerging field of artificial intelligence for materials science, Fedus's company will be a competitor to the likes of Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and others.In 2023, DeepMind claimed that its AI system, Gnome, had discovered crystals that could be used to make new materials. Recently, Microsoft also launched two materials discovery AI tools called MatterGen and MatterSim.<\/p>\n<p>However, some experts are skeptical that current AI is capable of realizing new scientific discoveries in the true sense of the word.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 18th, the Vice-President of OpenAI for Post Training Studies, Liam Fedus, announced that he would leave the company and start an artificial intelligence start-up that focused on material science. 1AI notes that Fedus issued a statement on platform X that: \u201cMy undergraduates are physics, and I have always longed to apply artificial intelligence in this field.\u201d He also mentioned that, since artificial intelligence in the field of science was one of the most strategic areas for OpenAI to achieve universal artificial intelligence (AGI), OpenAI planned to invest and establish partnerships with its new companies. In the emerging field of material science, artificial intelligence, Fedus companies will compete with Google DeepMind and Microsoft<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[190,309,6005],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-30983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-openai","tag-309","tag-6005"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30983"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=30983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}