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After decades at MIT studying how nature builds - from spider silk to bone to nacre - I've become convinced of something: the biggest barrier to scientific progress isn't knowledge, it's connection. The insights we need already exist, scattered across millions of papers and disciplines. They're just trapped in silos that no single human mind can bridge. That's why I co-founded Unreasonable Labs together with Yuan Cao: to build superintelligence for knowledge discovery. Today we're coming out of stealth with $13.5M in seed funding led by @PlaygroundGlobal, with participation from @aixventureshq, @e14fund, and MS&AD Ventures. We're building a system that doesn't just retrieve information but reasons across it - connecting disparate ideas to generate genuinely novel hypotheses grounded in physical reality. The genesis of Unreasonable itself came from the kind of serendipity we're trying to systematize. A chance encounter with a mathematician working on category theory became the theoretical bridge between language models and structured scientific reasoning - and ultimately the foundation for everything we're building. Our mission is to replace that serendipity with steerable reasoning, so that every scientist can make those leaps deliberately, not accidentally. I'm grateful to our advisors - Kostya Novoselov, Robert Langer, and @Thom_Wolf - and to the extraordinary team making this possible. We're not building AI that replaces scientists. We're building AI that lets them solve in weeks what used to take years. The future is abundant innovation. Let's build it.

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