CuspAI is trying to set itself apart with talent. Max Welling, its other co-founder, is a respected AI researcher. Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton, two pioneers of modern AI techniques, are on the startup’s advisory board. On Monday, the company also named Abhi Talwalkar, a semiconductor veteran and the director of Advanced Micro Devices Inc to the board. AMD’s venture unit joined in the latest round of CuspAI financing. CuspAI moreover said it hired John Giannandrea, a former Google and Apple executive, to work part-time setting up the startup’s California outpost.