Discovered Materials
ActiveAI-nativeAI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
What it does
We use AI to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - specifically datacenters and fabs. Finding novel materials today takes 10+ years of lab work. We aim to compress that timeline to months, using a swarm of AI agents. Akash completed his PhD at Stanford on material discovery for semiconductors. The materials he discovered for nanoscale interconnects have been adopted into the roadmaps of Intel and TSMC. Advaith was the founding applied scientist at Persona AI (acquired by Luma Labs), where he built long horizon autonomous agents for major telecom and crypto companies. Power consumption and heat release from AI chips is doubling every year. The semiconductor industry needs new materials to keep this exponential going - Discovered Materials will help find them.
Its site says now · captured 2026-08-23
Discovered Materials — Accelerating the lab-to-fab timeline
We introduce Discovered Materials: AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips. Backed by a $9M seed round led by Lightspeed, we're also open-sourcing Material Discovery Bench.
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