Anj Midha

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721 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

Thanks for having me.

It's too long.

It only took us, what, eight years, nine years?

I forget when it was.

I was 12 when we last did it.

12 in startup land is 25, right?

Oh, no, absolutely not.

That's not true at all.

In certain domains that are well explored, like coding, for example, yes, there's an increasing amount of compute required to get an incremental gain in some eval that's super saturated.

But if you said, Anj, what about material science?

You know, I'm sitting here at Periodic Labs office.

This is my latest incubation is called Periodic Labs.

I spend three days a week here in Menlo Park.

We have a 30,000 square foot facility where we have LLMs that then predict new materials, new superconductors.

We then have robots synthesize those new materials.

And then we have physical machines like x-ray diffraction machines validate whether those materials have the properties that were predicted by the LLMs.

And then we pipe that verification data back into our training run, you know, how many ever times we need.

And I can tell you throwing more compute at the problem is probably having

Yeah, super exponential gains right now per iteration.

So it depends on which domain you're talking about, which modality.

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