{"id":213492,"date":"2026-05-13T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/former-openai-researcher-to-raise-500-million-for-startup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:20:10","slug":"former-openai-researcher-to-raise-500-million-for-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/former-openai-researcher-to-raise-500-million-for-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Former OpenAI researcher to raise $500 million for startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/former-openai-researcher-to-raise-500-million-for-ai-science-startup\/\">Former OpenAI researcher to raise $500 million for startup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/former-openai-researcher-to-raise-500-million-for-ai-science-startup\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/former-openai-researcher-to-raise-500-million-for-ai-science-startup\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 19:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com.au\">www.forbes.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article using an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Periodic Labs, a San Francisco-based startup focused on AI-driven scientific discovery, is negotiating a significant fundraising round.<br \/>\n&#8211; The company aims to raise at least $500 million, which would value it at $7.5 billion, marking a nearly sixfold increase since its founding last year.<br \/>\n&#8211; This investor-attract pitch hinges on its plan to automate laboratories to run thousands of physical and chemical experiments to fuel its AI models.<br \/>\n&#8211; The new round, reportedly led by AMP, a firm founded by ex-Andreessen Horowitz general partner Anjney Midha, is said to be oversubscribed.<br \/>\n&#8211; Founded by former employees of leading tech companies like OpenAI and DeepMind, the startup intends to utilize its AI to discover new materials, including superconductors that work at higher temperatures.<br \/>\n&#8211; Periodic Labs has been building a talented team, poaching over 20 researchers from major companies like Meta, DeepMind, and OpenAI.<br \/>\n&#8211; Many leading AI researchers believe that the &#8220;holy grail&#8221; of AI is its capability in autonomous scientific discovery, highlighting the broader aspirations behind the firm\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>If you require more detailed information, I recommend accessing the original source at Forbes.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former OpenAI researcher to raise $500 million for startup https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/former-openai-researcher-to-raise-500-million-for-ai-science-startup\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-13 19:14:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0x0-24.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213494,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213492\/revisions\/213494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}