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Discovered Materials, founded by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, raised a $9M seed from Lightspeed India Partners, Peak XV, and angels including Paul Graham after exiting Y Combinator. The startup uses a pipeline of Anthropic models in a custom harness to generate candidate semiconductor materials, then validates them with trained foundational physics models, claiming thousands of guesses per day versus Ramdas's 20/day during his Stanford PhD.

Why: For AI agent builders, the architecture pattern is worth noting: LLMs for hypothesis generation paired with domain-specific simulation models for verification, running 24/7 in the cloud. However, this is primarily a materials science play with no direct tooling, API, or product the audience can adopt, and the claimed material discoveries are undisclosed.

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