Cambridge-based artificial intelligence firm CuspAI has bolstered its advisory board with a string of key recruits including Yann LeCun and Verity Harding.
LeCun is Meta’s Chief AI Scientist, a Turing Prize Laureate and a professor at New York University.
Harding is a director of the AI and Geopolitics Project at the University of Cambridge and author of “AI Needs You”. She was one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in AI.
LeCun said: “The application of machine learning and modern AI to material science is one of the most promising approaches to addressing the biggest challenges faced by humanity.
“CuspAI’s combination of frontier AI and materials expertise is exactly what’s needed to tackle these challenges.”
Also joining the advisory board is Kristin Persson, director of the Materials Project and UC Berkeley Professor, who was named Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the U.S. Department of Energy last year. Already on the board is Nobel Laureate and Turing Prize winner Professor Geoffrey Hinton, who joined last year.
CuspAI is building a materials discovery engine that combines frontier AI with deep materials expertise to compress decades of traditional discovery into months. The firm’s first focus areas span carbon capture, semiconductors and energy storage.
Co-founders Prof. Max Welling and Dr Chad Edwards said: “We knew from day one that the journey ahead would require not just breakthrough technology, but the guidance of people whose vision extends beyond the horizon of what most consider possible.”
In June, the company raised £24m in an investment round was led by Hoxton Ventures and featured participation from Basis Set Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, LocalGlobe, Northzone, Touring Capital, Giant Ventures, FJ Labs, Tiferes Ventures and Zero Prime Ventures.
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