Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.(@iScienceLuvr):Periodic Labs is doing extremely cool work applying frontier AI research to materials science. Here they post-train a model for a X-ray diffraction analysis, beating GPT-6 Astra and boosting performance of Kimi K2.6 by 20x! What's worth noting here is Periodic is doing RL directly with real-world experimental data, which comes with many unique challenges over coding/knowledge-work environments.

Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.

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Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.@iScienceLuvr

2026.09.15 21:06

Periodic Labs is doing extremely cool work applying frontier AI research to materials science. Here they post-train a model for a X-ray diffraction analysis, beating GPT-6 Astra and boosting performance of Kimi K2.6 by 20x! What's worth noting here is Periodic is doing RL directly with real-world experimental data, which comes with many unique challenges over coding/knowledge-work environments.