Periodic Labs details the 1,300-GPU stack behind Neon

Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk built custom routing, sandboxing and training systems for long scientific RL runs.

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Periodic Labs is treating physical experiments as an RL environment, forcing its founders to build model training, tool execution and laboratory operations as one system.

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Liam Fedus (@LiamFedus) and Ekin Dogus Cubuk (@ekindogus) have detailed the reinforcement-learning infrastructure behind Neon, the 1-trillion-parameter model analyzing experiments inside Periodic Labs' high-throughput laboratories.

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