CuspAI: A Search Engine for Materials That Don’t Exist Yet

The next breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, carbon capture, and clean water depend on materials that have yet to be discovered.

CuspAI is building an AI-powered search engine for materials. Its platform works backward from the properties a material needs, generating and evaluating new candidates based on both performance and whether they can actually be made.

In this conversation, Josh Coyne sits down with CuspAI co-founders Chad Edwards and Max Welling to discuss how AI can compress years of materials discovery into months.