--- title: CuspAI signs up Nvidia and Meta for AI materials push description: Cambridge-based CuspAI has launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of 45+ companies including Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, and Hyundai, aimed at accelerating... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-signs-up-nvidia-and-meta-for-ai-materials-push-lbeebdczv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CuspAI signs up Nvidia and Meta for AI materials push | daily.dev og:description: Cambridge-based CuspAI has launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of 45+ companies including Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, and Hyundai, aimed at accelerating... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-signs-up-nvidia-and-meta-for-ai-materials-push-lbeebdczv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LbEEbdCzv.png og:image:alt: CuspAI signs up Nvidia and Meta for AI materials push og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CuspAI signs up Nvidia and Meta for AI materials push **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cambridge-based CuspAI has launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of 45+ companies including Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, and Hyundai, aimed at accelerating the discovery of new materials using AI. The company simultaneously confirmed a $450m Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, with backing from Jeff Bezos and the UK government's Sovereign AI Venture Fund, valuing CuspAI at $2.6bn. Its platform MIRA runs the full materials discovery cycle — generating candidates, simulating them, planning synthesis, and coordinating lab tests. A case study with Finnish firm Kemira saw CuspAI screen 300 trillion molecular structures in six months, a process that had previously taken years. Key targets include reducing rare metals in chipmaking, advancing clean energy, batteries, and water purification. Notable advisers include Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and former ASML CTO Martin van den Brink. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is CuspAI's AI Materials Foundry and who is involved? It is a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, launched by Cambridge-based CuspAI, to pool data, labs, and computing power for faster materials design. Founding partners include Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor Group, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research. Nvidia supplies computing power, while Meta's research lab contributes a model built to simulate atoms. _Track how large coalitions like this reshape AI-driven scientific discovery by following updates on daily.dev._ ### How much did CuspAI raise in its Series B and what is the company valued at? CuspAI confirmed a $450m (€385m) Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, with backing from Jeff Bezos's investment fund. The round values the company at $2.6bn. It is also the fourth company backed by the UK government's Sovereign AI Venture Fund, which typically invests between £1m and £10m in early-stage British firms. _Investors weighing AI startup valuations can follow funding trends like this on daily.dev._ ### What did CuspAI's MIRA platform achieve in its work with Kemira? CuspAI's MIRA platform screened 300 trillion possible molecular structures and returned 20 validated candidate materials for the Finnish chemicals firm Kemira. That search previously took Kemira years to conduct manually, but CuspAI says it completed the work in six months, illustrating the platform's approach of generating, simulating, planning, and lab-testing candidate materials. _Developers exploring AI-accelerated scientific discovery can keep up with case studies like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [CuspAI: Bezos backs $2.6bn materials-AI startup](https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-bezos-backs-2-6bn-materials-ai-startup-bu53pkfs6) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips](https://daily.dev/posts/discovered-materials-is-playing-ai-whack-a-mole-to-hunt-cooler-chips-n0vabzg8o) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-materials-discovery-now-needs-to-move-into-the-real-world-xu1en29vn) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Industry-Academia Alliance Turbocharges AI Chip Design](https://daily.dev/posts/industry-academia-alliance-turbocharges-ai-chip-design-koqmq1mir) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Advancing Semiconductor Innovation Across Materials Engineering and Manufacturing](https://daily.dev/posts/advancing-semiconductor-innovation-across-materials-engineering-and-manufacturing-bpmloobhh) · NVIDIA Developer · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#science](https://daily.dev/tags/science), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-signs-up-nvidia-and-meta-for-ai-materials-push-lbeebdczv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"CuspAI signs up Nvidia and Meta for AI materials push","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-signs-up-nvidia-and-meta-for-ai-materials-push-lbeebdczv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-signs-up-nvidia-and-meta-for-ai-materials-push-lbeebdczv"},"datePublished":"2026-07-20T12:33:23.298Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T09:05:19.812Z","description":"Cambridge-based CuspAI has launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of 45+ companies including Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, and Hyundai, aimed at accelerating...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/397d0420c78d29d41c111876ae0e1a05?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/397d0420c78d29d41c111876ae0e1a05?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-signs-up-nvidia-and-meta-for-ai-materials-push-lbeebdczv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,science,nvidia","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"CuspAI signs up Nvidia and Meta for AI materials push"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/cuspai-signs-up-nvidia-and-meta-for-ai-materials-push-lbeebdczv#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is CuspAI's AI Materials Foundry and who is involved?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"It is a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, launched by Cambridge-based CuspAI, to pool data, labs, and computing power for faster materials design. 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