# AI Can't Do Real Science. These Ex-OpenAI Founders Are Building the Fix.

- slug: ai-cant-do-real-science-these-ex-openai-founders-are-building-the-fix
- date: 2026-03-26
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Periodic Labs, the AI science startup founded by two former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers, is in discussions to raise at a valuation of about $7 billion \u2014 roughly five times the $1.3 billion valuation investors assigned the company just six months ago, according to people familiar with the...

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