Max Welling
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A big thank you to all of our investors for backing our vision - including @KleinerPerkins and @NEA who co-led the round.
Also delighted to welcome @UKSovereignAI and the Netherlands’ @Invest_NL as investors in CuspAI.
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Read about us piece in @bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Read our press release businesswire.com/news/home/2026…
Visit our website: cusp.ai
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Today, @CuspAI is launching the ‘AI Materials Foundry’ - a global network of data, labs, compute, and deep scientific expertise dedicated to the design of novel materials.
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Our book on Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics is out this month. @wellingmax, @sirui_lu97 and I have been posting about some interesting topics it covers.
Today we have my favourite animations yet, and some groundwork for the coming days: five related Markov kernels.
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Our book "Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics: A Tale of Free Energies" is out this month. With @HoldijkLars and @wellingmax we're posting about topics it covers. Yesterday: the ELBO as a free energy.
Today: normalizing flows. Remove the noise, and the bound becomes exact.
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Our book "Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics: A Tale of Free Energies" is out this month. With @sirui_lu97 and @wellingmax I'm posting about topics it covers. Yesterday: heat and work in variational EM.
Today: the variational free energy, and why the ELBO is one.
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(1/9) Our book is out this month. Generative AI and Stochastic Thermodynamics: A Tale of Free Energies, with @wellingmax (@cusp_ai + UvA) and @HoldijkLars (@UniofOxford), from Cambridge University Press (@CambridgeUP).
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New episode of The Information Bottleneck is out 🥳🥳🥳 with Max Welling (@wellingmax )
Max is a legend and a personal hero of mine, so this one meant a lot.
We got into which scientific problems ML can actually touch right now vs what's still too early, what the loop looks like when simulators, wet labs, and real experiments all feed back into each other, where the field is way too optimistic about generalization, and how you handle uncertainty when being wrong costs you a month in the lab. Also the academia → CuspAI shift and what it changed for him.
One of my favorite conversations we've done.

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There's more to our interview with @cusp_ai co-founder @wellingmax. Check out the full episode with AoT hosts Autria Godfrey, @stephenjhorn, and @Laila_Rizvi: youtu.be/QWjzHJHh_fw

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@SuryaGanguli They will probably find something to complain about. The infinite retreat.
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Where are the stochastic parrot folks at? 😉
Timothy Gowers @wtgowers@wtgowers
AI has now solved a major open problem -- one of the best known Erdos problems called the unit distance problem, one of Erdos's favourite questions and one that many mathematicians had tried. openai.com/index/model-di…
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Beautiful work (and illustration) on super fast weather prediction by @maxxxzdn
Max Zhdanov@maxxxzdn
🌍Today we release Mosaic, a probabilistic weather model that shifts the Pareto frontier of ML weather forecasting. It matches the skill of state-of-the-art models while generating a 24-member, 10-day global forecast in under 12 s on a single H100. Thread!
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The candidates are now advancing to further development and testing.
I am proud of the @cusp_ai team and excited by what this says about the future of materials discovery!
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Today @cusp_ai and @KemiraGroup announce a milestone in AI-driven materials discovery.
We have used generative AI to design new materials targeting PFAS removal from drinking and process water at trace concentrations.
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