Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more
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AI-native materials discovery with heavyweight advisors and Nvidia in the loop is another marker that compute, models, and wet labs are converging into a single product surface. If you operate in any physical industry—energy, manufacturing, climate—assume your materials stack is now a software question as much as a supply-chain one.
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