Latent Space · June 25, 2025 · 70m

CuspAI: AI for Materials Discovery

Max Welling discusses CuspAI and how AI is accelerating materials science discovery, potentially unlocking new battery chemistries, superconductors, and carbon capture materials.

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Biographies of scientific breakthroughs reveal the role of tooling

Welling traces how every major materials science breakthrough (semiconductors, lithium-ion batteries, graphene) was enabled by new observation and search tools, arguing AI is the next such tool.

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Highlights

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AI as an environment explorer — searching chemical space that humans cannot navigate

CuspAI uses AI to explore the vast space of possible material compositions that is too large for human researchers to search systematically.

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