Detailed Review of Discovered Materials - AI Agent Software (2026)

What is Discovered Materials?

We introduce Discovered Materials: AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips. Backed by a $9M seed round led by Lightspeed, we're also open-sourcing Material Discovery Bench. Today, we introduce Discovered Materials: we build AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips. Alongside this, we also open-source Material Discovery Bench , a benchmark we built to measure exactly this capability. AI agents compress months of inter-disciplinary scientific work to days. Over the 3 months of our Y Combinator batch, we simulated, synthesized and tested thermal interface materials that match the performance of products the world’s largest chemical companies have sold and guarded as trade secrets for over 20 years.