Kevin Weil, Vice President for Science at OpenAI. After leading product teams at Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, Kevin is now focused on accelerating scientific discovery with AI. In this interview, he explains how AI models are pushing beyond the frontier of human knowledge, why robotic labs and long-horizon reasoning could transform research, and what founders need to understand to build successfully in the age of AI.
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