Max Welling: Why the Next AI Breakthrough May Come from Physics
TWIML AI Podcast · rss · 2026-08-26
Max Welling, co-founder of CuspAI and professor at the University of Amsterdam, argues that physics may inspire the next generation of AI systems.
CuspAI's Work: Using generative AI to design new materials for semiconductors, batteries, and carbon capture, accelerating discovery via foundation models for chemistry, agentic workflows, and automated experimentation.
Physics & AI: Exploring connections between machine learning and thermodynamics, waves as computational primitives, and how concepts like symmetry breaking could inspire architectures beyond the current scaling paradigm.
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