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Radical AI’s Joseph Krause: The Scientist Building The ‘Waymo’ Lab For New Materials

Materials science hasn’t changed much in 150 years. Radical AI CEO Joseph Krause wants to change that.

In a big new lab in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, the startup founder is looking to change that. He’s building a “next-gen” approach that he says makes other autonomous labs look like hand-free driving mode on a car, compared to a fully self-driving Waymo.

It’s an approach that plenty of corporate scientists tell Krause must be too good to be true. “How could you really discover more alloys in a week than we have discovered in our company history?” he says they ask.

But since its founding in 2024…

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