CuspAI

It was a pleasure to talk to Andy Extance at Chemistry World about the AI Materials Foundry that CuspAI has built: https://lnkd.in/e-_9quHW None of this happens without teamwork and partnerships. There is real power in community!

“My dream is that we'll be able to stand in the world - and point at certain devices or equipment - and say ‘that is powered by our materials’ and they’re having a positive impact on the world." Is your organization ready for the shift to Physical AI? Read our co-founder Chad Edwards' reflections below in Sifted 👇

Great conversation between our co-founder Max Welling and John Thornhill in the Financial Times AI Exchange. Max and John discuss how CuspAI uses AI to create new materials to tackle climate change, the energy transition and challenges in the semiconductor industry. Max began his career in theoretical physics, working with a Nobel laureate on quantum gravity - but he moved into machine learning to make more of an impact in the real world. He launched CuspAI out of a desire to do something about climate change and the energy transition. Max saw a huge opportunity for machine learning to tackle these problems - and today at CuspAI we're already building molecules to remove PFAS from water and CO2 from the atmosphere. In their conversation, Max and John cover: 🌍 The physical AI revolution: expanding beyond LLMs to systems that reason about physics and 3D space ⚡ Why deep partnerships and expertise are more important than over reliance on "super intelligence" 🔋 Why CuspAI's most important application domain is semiconductors, and the scale of performance gains needed in the space Read the article in the comments...

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥: 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐁𝐁𝐐 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Fresh from a $𝟒𝟓𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐁, CuspAI Co-founder Max Welling will join Charlotte Jee, News Editor at MIT Technology Review, for a conversation on the next frontier of AI-driven materials discovery. The 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 company raised the round in July 2026, co-led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, with backing from Bezos Expeditions and the UK Sovereign AI Venture Fund. The raise valued CuspAI at approximately $2.6 billion a major signal of the global ambition emerging from Europe’s deep-tech ecosystem. Alongside the raise, CuspAI launched its AI Materials Foundry, connecting data, laboratories, compute and scientific expertise to accelerate the discovery of new materials. The fireside will explore how AI can move scientific breakthroughs from the lab into real-world applications, shorten research timelines and help Europe build globally competitive technology companies. 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐀𝐈 Max Welling - Co-founder, CuspAI. Moderated by Charlotte Jee - News Editor, MIT Technology Review. 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝑩𝑩𝑸 2026 · 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝑪𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒏 26–27 𝑨𝒖𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝐵𝑢𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛! 

On the heels of CuspAI's AI Materials Foundry launch and $450M Series B announcement, we're sharing our excitement and conviction for Chad Edwards, Max Welling, and the Cusp team. 🤩 ➡️ From algorithms to atoms: NEA's Lila Tretikov, Philip Chopin, Andrew Schoen, Thomas Joshi, & Elie de Fressenel detail why we're doubling down on CuspAI, as they build the AI “search engine for the material world” to turn desired properties into real materials for climate, energy, semis, and more. 📝 Check out the blog here: https://lnkd.in/gG8XUfJu

Today, we’re also announcing our $450M Series B funding round, at a valuation of $2.6 billion. It’s a vote of confidence that the most transformative applications of AI are moving beyond the digital world, into the physical world. New materials can unlock performance, sustainability and new solutions to existing intractable problems. This latest capital allows us to continue scaling globally to meet industrial demand, and accelerate breakthrough materials through our AI Materials Foundry. Grateful to our investors - both existing and new - including Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Bezos Expeditions, Temasek, AMD Ventures Glade Brook Capital Partners LLC Lux Capital and many more.

A big day for CuspAI as we announce our $450 million Series B alongside launching our AI Materials Foundry. Materials discovery, like all forms of scientific progress, has been a long and laborious process of trial and error. When I did my chemistry PhD, I often wished for an alternate reality, where things were faster and more predictable. Today, that different world is within reach. Our AI Materials Foundry brings together over 45 global, tier 1 partners - including Meta, NVIDIA, Henkel, Tokyo Electron, Applied Materials, Lam Research, Samsung Electronics, AMD, Merck Group, A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research and many more - to accelerate the pace of progress in materials design. When design, compute, synthesis and integration happen in rapid feedback loops, we can compress decades of R&D into months. This is the vision for the AI Materials Foundry. Incredibly grateful to our investors, including Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Temasek, Jeff Bezos, John Doerr and many more for their belief in our mission. If materials are the bottleneck in what you're building, we'd love to connect. More in the comments below. Written by a human.

📣 Introducing the AI Materials Foundry - with more than 45 global partners coming together to achieve breakthroughs in semiconductors, clean energy and advanced manufacturing. 💫 Leading companies including Meta, NVIDIA, Hyundai Motor Company, Henkel, Samsung Electronics, Applied Materials, AMD and more - are joining us to accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. For decades, a lack of new materials has bottlenecked progress. Today, the AI Materials Foundry brings together industry partners, data, labs, compute and scientific expertise in one network - orchestrated by CuspAI’s agentic platform. The race to next-generation materials is on. Find out more in the comments…