When the founder of Radical AI reached out to AlleyCorp’s Kevin Ryan, he made a pointed argument: material science was being overlooked in the race toward artificial intelligence. Alongside co-founder Jorge, he had grown disillusioned with the dominant trend of building interface layers on top of large models. They were looking for something more foundational. “We kept seeing wrappers on top of foundation models and thought, is this really it?” he recalled. “That can’t be the pinnacle of innovation.”
The duo spent months reading AI research, convinced the technology had potential far beyond its current uses. What they found was an opportunity at the intersection of AI and the physical world, specifically in materials science. That focus became the foundation of Radical AI, w
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