Bezos backs CuspAI as startup hunts for new chip materials with Nvidia
Jeff Bezos has invested in British startup CuspAI, which announced its partnership on Monday. Nvidia and several other industry leaders pursuing breakthroughs in semiconductors, clean energy and advanced manufacturing.
The $450 million fundraising, which values CuspAI at $2.6 billion, was led by Kleiner Perkins and the NEA, with significant participation from Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions. Other new investors include Glade Brook Capital Partners, Lux Capital, AMD Ventures and Britain’s Sovereign AI Venture Fund.
CuspAI uses artificial intelligence to simulate the performance of new materials, narrowing down a multitude of possibilities for laboratory testing.
“Most big leaps in technology rely on materials, and the next set, from cheaper carbon capture to semiconductors to cleaner water, are stuck waiting for materials no one has discovered yet,” Josh Coyne, partner at Kleiner Perkins, said in a statement. he said. “CuspAI has developed a search engine that changes this.”
Building the physical future of artificial intelligence
CuspAI is one of the next generation of artificial intelligence companies looking to apply the technology to the physical world.
Bezos’ own company, Prometheus, was founded in 2025 and generated $12 billion in revenue at a $41 billion valuation. Artificial intelligence for invention and physics engineering.
UK-based CuspAI is opening a new office in Singapore and expanding its teams in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Japan and the US
The startup has also launched what it calls the “AI Materials Foundry,” a network of data, labs, computing and scientific expertise running on CuspAI’s AI platform.
Nvidia is among the 45 organizations that will provide the IT infrastructure. Meta’s The Basic Artificial Intelligence Research Team is also participating in the initiative.
“As AI transforms the physical world, new materials will open new frontiers in semiconductors, energy and advanced manufacturing,” said CuspAI CEO and co-founder Chad Edwards.
“AI Material Foundry combines NVIDIA’s accelerated computing infrastructure with world-class chemistry and materials expertise to help power the next generation of materials discovery.”
