Sina Samangooei

Technical staff @cusp_ai. Working to solve the worlds problems with AI

ex. @googledeepmind @_FiveAI @amazon

[Ry @rynduma]

Our perspective on closing the synthesis gap in computational materials design is now live @NatureSynthesis !

We survey how thermodynamic potentials, chemical heuristics, and machine learning models can guide compound selection, and argue the path forward couples generation, synthesis planning, and experimental validation in agentic workflows.

With @lonepair , @hspark1212 , Kinga Mastej, and Panyalak Detrattanawichai. Thanks to @AIchemyHub for the funding.

Read the full text: https://t.co/rtHFnmDZvJ

[Nicholas Gao @n_gao96]

On my way to Rio for @iclr_conf 🇧🇷. If you want to chat about @cusp_ai or research, feel free to reach out!

[Max Welling @wellingmax]

Excited to announce I’ll be on Reddit for an AMA r/MachineLearning on 15th April at 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11:00 ET/08:00 PT.

[Max Welling @wellingmax]

Hindsight is a luxury, but the biggest innovations are rarely obvious at the start.

I sat down with former @ASMLcompany President Martin van den Brink to discuss how they bet the company on EUV technology long before the AI boom made it essential.

[Max Welling @wellingmax]

I am proud to announce that today @cusp_ai has closed a $100M Series A fundraise, co-led by @NEA and @Temasek, with participation from @nvidia’s NVentures, @SamsungVentures and @Hyundai_Worldwide.

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

About to watch a pirate themed water based circus at the hippodrome... we're all pumped...#ICLR2025 has a lot to live up to next weekend

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

I and a few other @cusp_ai folks will be going to #ICLR2025 next week! are you? let me know!

We have some sweet sweet swag to give away, come find me and tell me two truths and a lie about material science to get your very own cusp-swag!

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

@gbarthmaron @cusp_ai gabe! It was an honour, truly!

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

Excited to share that off on a new adventure! After an incredible four years at GDM, I'll be joining the talented team at @cusp_ai. Eager to contribute to their mission of breakthrough material discovery; big focus on sustainability, including improved carbon capture technology.

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

@jonkhler @cusp_ai thanks @jonkhler! Excited to get stuck in!

[CuspAI @cusp_ai]

👨‍🚀 2025 is off to a great start - today we're excited to share that @sinjax has joined Cusp as Member of Technical Staff! With extensive experience in multimodal AI systems, large language models, and autonomous systems from his roles at DeepMind, FiveAI (Bosch), and Amazon, Sina brings invaluable experience to our team!

His impressive work on large-scale AI systems and contributions to projects like Flamingo and Gemini will be critical to our mission of enabling the future of breakthrough materials discovery.

Welcome aboard, Sina! 🚀

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

While I'm sad to say goodbye to such a fantastic team, I'm thrilled about this next chapter and the opportunity to make a positive impact on the world. Excited to see what the future holds at @cusp_ai! Reach out if you'd like to know more.

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

It's been an amazing journey filled with learning, growth, and collaboration alongside some of the brightest minds in the field. I'm incredibly grateful for the experiences and friendships I've gained.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

People scaled LLMs by ~10,000x from 2019 to 2024, and their scores on ARC stayed near 0 (e.g. GPT-4o at ~5%). Meanwhile a very crude program search approach could score >20% with hardly any compute.

Then OpenAI started adding test-time CoT search. ARC scores immediately shot up.

[Ali Eslami @arkitus]

I worked with Felix on a paper in 2021. I remember Felix as a consistently kind person, and as a brilliant thinker.

I'm sharing his farewell letter, as I think it's what he would have wanted.

Please be mindful, it's not an easy read: https://t.co/qzqUhnaWKa

Rest in peace.

[Sina Samangooei @sinjax]

This is incredibly sad.

[Douwe Kiela @douwekiela]

I’m really sad that my dear friend @FelixHill84 is no longer with us. He had many friends and colleagues all over the world - to try to ensure we reach them, his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: https://t.co/1QoyHmAD3p

[Douwe Kiela @douwekiela]

I’m really sad that my dear friend @FelixHill84 is no longer with us. He had many friends and colleagues all over the world - to try to ensure we reach them, his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: https://t.co/1QoyHmAD3p

[Nando de Freitas @NandoDF]

I’m grateful for 2024. I had a brilliant start at @GoogleDeepMind working on Lyria, Veo and Imagen 3. I’m pleased that my teams continued to build on our work and deliver amazing results after I left.

By leaving Google, I had the chance to go back to the things I love doing the most: reading papers, math and coding. Above all I started creating new things with a wonderful, small, fun and supportive team of exceptionally talented @Microsoft AI engineers. I am excited to deliver new powerful AI products for people with my new team in 2025. It’s all about the team, and this team makes me feel happy, valued and meaningful.

I had the support of my family and a wonderful partnership with my wife. They mean the world to me. I’m finishing it here in the Andes with them, looking forward to continuing my AI education efforts in Latin America in 2025, especially with @Khipu_AI

Wishing you all a wonderful 2025 full of health, love, and meaningful experiences ❤️