Qichao Hu
CEO and founder of SES AI, leading efforts to combine AI agents and autonomous wet labs for accelerated materials R&D (the Molecular Universe) and developing lithium metal batteries with industry partners such as GM, Honda, and Hyundai.
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Mar 15, 2026 • 47min
The AI Agent That Compressed 8 Years of R&D Into 2 Weeks
Dr. Qichao Hu, founder and CEO of SES AI who builds AI-driven autonomous labs for faster materials R&D. He explains how AI agents and robots compress an eight-year research cycle into weeks. They discuss lithium metal batteries, high-throughput wet lab testing, predicting lifetime from short tests, and building a vast molecular database to accelerate discovery.
