AI Goes Deep Ep. 1: Self-Driving Labs and 15 Years of the Materials Genome Initiative

In 2011 the US government set out to halve the time it takes to develop a new material. Fifteen years on, Dr. James Warren, who has directed the Materials Genome Initiative since 2012, explains what got delivered, why big manufacturers still haven't adopted it, and where a startup can plug into $400M of new federal lab capacity.

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We get into self-driving labs, why the real asset isn't the material you optimise but the process model you build along the way, and why incumbent caution is rational.

Guest: Dr. James A. Warren, physicist at NIST since 1992, Director of the Materials Genome Initiative, co-founder and director of the NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science.

Host: Xiao Zhong, VP Venture Building at FedTech.

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Warren's paper
Materials Genome Initiative
NIST MGI
NSF programmable cloud labs

AI Goes Deep is a podcast from FedTech.

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