Diffractive Labs
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About Diffractive Labs
Diffractive Labs is building an autonomous AI material scientist that discovers entirely new physical materials and brings them from hypothesis to lab synthesis to industrial scale up. Its mission is to revolutionize the way materials are invented by uniting machine learning, high throughput experimentation, and scientific reasoning into a single closed-loop system. The company aims to create breakthroughs in thermoelectrics, high entropy alloys, magnets, and other critical classes of materials, enabling more efficient energy systems, advanced manufacturing, and next-generation hardware. Diffractive Labs is backed by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures.
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Cross-disciplinary collaboration that unites machine learning, high-throughput experimentation, and scientific reasoning into a single closed-loop system.
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