Max Welling is a computer science professor at the University of Amsterdam and the co-founder of CuspAI, a UK-based start-up aiming to revolutionise the discovery of new materials. The company’s pitch is that it will use AI to achieve breakthroughs in “months, not millennia”.He has flitted between the worlds of research and commerce for three decades. His academic life includes posts at University College London, University of Toronto, University of California, Irvine and California Institute of...