Radical AI

Research on the record

• 2026-09-23Radical AI says all six materials its electronic-property model proposed met the target in its self-driving lab, while a second model did notLevel 3 · Checked against existing evidence
• 2026-08-07Purdue's torch test: Radical AI's alloy RAI-939 gained 0.25% mass where the Apollo-era alloy C103 lost 32%Level 4 · Tested in the physical world

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• 2026-06-17Real materials discovery must cross manufacturing and qualificationInterviewJoseph Krause · Latent Space

Also on the timeline

• 2026-09-29Sandia National Laboratories will use Radical AI's self-driving lab to search for cheaper metal membranes that separate out hydrogenPartnerships

Founders' research on the record

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• 2026-09-24A-Lab's cost-guided framework finds two fast NASICON solid electrolytes in 78 autonomous synthesis trialsLevel 4 · Tested in the physical world
• 2026-01-19Nature corrects the A-Lab paper: "novel" meant new to its prediction platform, and 36 of 40 reported syntheses are confirmedLevel 4 · Tested in the physical world

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People

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Funding rounds tracked

• 2025-07-18Seed · $55MconfirmedLed by RTX Ventures · With NVentures (NVIDIA), Noa, Infinite Capital, Eni Next, AlleyCorp, Tribeca Venture PartnersStated use: build an integrated system from materials design to manufacture
• 2024-07Pre-seed · undisclosed; AlleyCorp's 'largest pre-seed check ever'confirmedLed by AlleyCorpStated use: build the team and the self-driving lab

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Also in Materials and chemistry on the funding board

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• 2026-10-19MATARIASeed · tens of millions of yuanBuilds a multiscale materials model, from atoms to finished parts, that proposes candidates, narrows them with automated DFT and finite-element tools, and is tested by instrumented experiments; composites come first, then semiconductor and infrared materials.
• 2026-10-15HolyvoltVenture round · $45MTrains battery-materials models on 18 years of cell-cycling data from the high-throughput lab it acquired, Wildcat Discovery Technologies, and lets the models choose what the lab makes and cycles next. Its first material is DRX, a cathode family with neither nickel nor cobalt.
• 2026-10-14ScimplifyStrategic round · $25MDevelops manufacturing processes for specialty chemicals and critical materials in its own labs in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, then transfers them to a network of more than 500 partner factories. Its platform, Scinode, runs separate agents for research, manufacturing and quality control, choosing production routes and plants and tracking regulatory requirements.
• 2026-10-13AlbertSeries B · $55MSoftware and AI for chemistry and materials R&D at chemical and consumer-goods companies: it captures experiments, structures the data and lets scientists search and reason over it, suggest formulations and design experiments.
• 2026-10-12Matter MachinePre-Series A · £4MA University of Liverpool spin-out pairing AI prediction with experimental and characterisation expertise to find inorganic crystalline materials, aimed at batteries and catalysts.
• 2026-09-24Soge Intelligent ComputingAngel · tens of millions of yuanAtomistic AI models with long-range interactions, fast parallel simulation and battery device modelling, sold to battery and chemicals firms; spun out of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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