The AI-Native Laboratory Fueling the Physics Takeoff

For most of human history, discovery moved at the speed of one mind.

That ends today.

Now we operate at the speed of thousands of virtual minds.

This is Physical Superintelligence.

01

Why

Artificial intelligence is now colliding with physics.

Energy limits computation. Heat limits density. Materials limit manufacturing. Sensing limits knowledge. Communication limits coordination. Every technology eventually reaches the edge of the physics it was built on.

We believe physics is about to change more in the next five years than it has in the previous fifty.

02

How

Human scientists direct the missions. Virtual physicists carry out the research.

  1. Campaign

    The unit of work is the Autonomous Campaign: a directed research effort that runs continuously from problem definition through hypothesis, verification, experiment, engineering, and deployment.

  2. Verification

    A result becomes a discovery when independent forms of verification converge on it.

  3. Proving ground

    The first proving ground is the physical infrastructure of AI.

PSI is building the world's most advanced physics research lab to create novel world models, engineer physical systems beyond human design, and discover new physical laws of our universe.

PSI is a public benefit corporation: safety, verification, responsible development, and broad public benefit are established in our charter.

Our twenty-first-century civilization runs on twentieth-century physics.

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Leadership

Team

25+researchers and engineers

From
  • Harvard
  • MIT
  • Stanford
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • Perimeter Institute
  • Oxford
  • Cornell
  • UCSB
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Google
  • NVIDIA
  • Meta

Backing

$58M+Funding raised

Led by
  • Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Joined by
  • Dragon Global
  • Solari Capital
  • Robot Ventures
  • Susa Ventures
  • Variant Fund
  • SV Angel
  • Balaji
  • Valkyrie
  • 021T
  • Anthony Scaramucci
Individuals from
  • SoftBank Energy
  • a16z scout
  • Hugging Face
  • NVIDIA
  • OpenAI
  • Jump Capital

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Ignite the next golden age of physics.

A machine can know every note. It takes a person to know which of them is beautiful.

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