Periodic Labs: AI company

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Key facts

Seed round (reported, Sep 2025)

300 million dollar seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Felicis, DST, NVentures and Accel among investors.

Founders (reported, Sep 2025)

Founded by former OpenAI researcher Liam Fedus and former Google DeepMind researcher Ekin Dogus Cubuk.

Data & sources

News coverage

1

Web sources

1

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Periodic Labs.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

Record createdOct 13, 2026
Added to the verified registry

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Sources (2)

Common questions

What is Periodic Labs?

AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous labs to accelerate materials discovery, founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk.

What does Periodic Labs make?

Periodic Labs has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Periodic Labs builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

Is Periodic Labs a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Periodic Labs ranks in roughly the top 94% of companies tracked by the registry.

Is Periodic Labs safe?

Periodic Labs has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Unreviewed · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13

Verification posture

Unreviewed

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-10-13

Sources by quality tier

1: secondary-industry-publication; Industry publication
1: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

No press coverage on file for Periodic Labs yet. Coverage appears here automatically as articles are ingested from our press sources.

Machine-readable surfaces

Markdown mirror: /companies/periodic-labs.md
RSS feed: /companies/periodic-labs/feed.xml
JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
REST API: /v1/companies/c4427fd4-ec8e-4c66-88e4-7bafe6b58340
Revision history: /companies/periodic-labs/history
Data documentation: /data
Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP

Reality vs attention

Not enough verified signal yet to place Periodic Labs against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.

6-month trend

Peer rankingTop 94% of category

vs funding peers-41.2 ptsbelow funding-adj. expected

Analysis

Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.

Dimension breakdown

Verified signal

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Attention (reach, not merit)

Market Presence →

0.0LOW

DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.

DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed

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Last computed: Oct 20, 2026

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