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Why this segment is hiring, and the mistake most applicants make AI for science points machine learning at matter rather than text: which candidate material will survive synthesis, which molecule will bind, how a storm system will evolve, how to run a simulation a thousand times faster than the physics-based solver it replaces. As of July 2026 it has the three things that reliably precede a hiring wave — capital, compute and institutional sponsorship — arriving together. The capital is visible. CuspAI, the Cambridge-based materials-discovery company founded in 2024 by Dr Chad Edwards and Professor Max Welling, raised a 450 million dollar Series B in July 2026 at a 2.6 billion dollar valuation, up from 520 million the previous September. The round was co-led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA,…
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