Company Reports

In-depth fundamental analysis of companies in the Physics-AI and scientific computing space: technology roadmap, product matrix, business model, competitive landscape and risks. Every score and conclusion is sourced and dated.

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Beijing 51World Digital Twin Technology Co., Ltd. HKEX 6651 Public

51World Deep Dive: A Listed Digital Twin Company Where 51Sim Becomes the First Growth Engine While 51Earth Nearly Vanishes, and Two Irreconcilable Financing Naming Conventions Must Both Be Kept

A listed digital twin company where 51Sim is now the first growth engine while 51Earth nearly vanishes, with two irreconcilable financing naming conventions and a HK$51.3 target price.

Physical AIWorld ModelSpatial Intelligence Updated 2026-10-23 6.4
Technology 6.5 · Business 6 · Funding 6.5 · Products 7 · Market 6 35810
Lightwheel Series B

Lightwheel Deep Dive: A Physical AI Data and Evaluation Infrastructure Startup Founded by a Former NVIDIA Simulation Lead, Seven Rounds Totalling Roughly CNY 2.65 Billion at a Valuation Above USD 2 Billion, Seats on Both the Newton and EgoVerse International Standards Committees, With Two Incompatible Accounts of Q1 Orders

A physical AI data and evaluation infrastructure startup founded by a former NVIDIA simulation lead, with seven rounds totalling roughly CNY 2.65 billion at a valuation above USD 2 billion, holding the only Chinese seats on both the Newton and EgoVerse international standards committees, and with Q1 orders reported under two incompatible figures.

Physical AIEmbodied AISynthetic Data Updated 2026-10-23 8
Technology 8 · Business 7.5 · Funding 9 · Products 7.5 · Market 8 35810
Intesim (Dalian) Engineering Simulation Technology Co., Ltd. Series B

Intesim (INTESIM) Deep Dive: A Home-grown Chinese CAE Leader Founded in 2009 with Self-developed Solvers for Structure, Fluid, Electromagnetics, Thermal and Acoustics and Multiphysics Coupling, a ~RMB 100M B Round from CNII and Shenzhen Capital, and 2025 Revenue and Bookings Both above RMB 100M

One of China's home-grown CAE leaders, founded in 2009 in Dalian, with self-developed solvers for structure, fluid, electromagnetics, thermal and acoustics plus multiphysics coupling; it closed a ~RMB 100M B round led by CNII and Shenzhen Capital, and posted both revenue and bookings above RMB 100M in 2025, with AI+CAE products due in the year-end R2 release.

CAEMultiphysicsSolver Updated 2026-10-23 7.5
Technology 8 · Business 7.5 · Funding 6.5 · Products 8 · Market 7.5 35810
Monumo Limited Seed

Monumo Deep Dive: A Cambridge Deeptech Company Redesigning Electric Motors with the Anser AI Engine, Tens of Millions of Multiphysics Simulations per Day, a USD ~14M Seed Round, and a Series A Still Open

A Cambridge deeptech firm whose Anser AI Engine performs system-level multiphysics optimisation of EV motors at tens of millions of simulations per day; it raised a USD ~14M seed and has not yet closed its next funding round, with named work including Hyundai Cradle.

Engineering AIMultiphysicsSolver Updated 2026-10-23 6.5
Technology 7.5 · Business 6 · Funding 6 · Products 6.5 · Market 6.5 35810
NP Company Seed

NP Co. (NP Company) Deep Dive: A 2025-founded Paris Inria-born AI-native simulation startup that raised a EUR 6M pre-seed led by Partech with Mistral AI co-founders as angels, claiming a pre-trained physics foundation model at 1,000x speedup — most claims unverified

A Paris Inria-born AI-native simulation startup (founded 2025) building pre-trained transformer physics foundation models; a EUR 6M pre-seed led by Partech with Mistral AI co-founders as angels; its 1,000x speedup and 50,000x full-assembly target remain unverified.

Physical AIPhysics Foundation ModelEngineering AI Updated 2026-10-23 5.2
Technology 6.5 · Business 3.5 · Funding 6 · Products 3 · Market 7 35810
Physical Intelligence, Inc. Series C

Physical Intelligence Deep Dive: A $2.1B Bet on the GPT Moment for Robotics, With pi0.7 Self-Reporting 60-80 Percent Success on Unseen Tasks and Neither Pricing nor Revenue Disclosed for the Pi API

A San Francisco robot foundation model lab from the MIT, Stanford and Berkeley lineage, whose pi series uses a unified VLA architecture to control any embodiment, with a Pi API opened in October 2026 but neither pricing nor revenue disclosed

Embodied AIPhysical AIWorld Model Updated 2026-10-23 7
Technology 9 · Business 4.5 · Funding 9 · Products 5 · Market 7.5 35810
Physical Superintelligence PBC Seed

Physical Superintelligence Deep Dive: A $58M Seed Bet on Virtual Physicists, With Emmy Targeting AI Data Center Multiphysics Optimization as Its First Commercial Proof Point

An AI-native physics lab founded by MIT and Harvard alumni, whose Emmy platform runs virtual physicists across coupled multiphysics, with AI data center cooling and power optimization as its first commercial target

Physical AIPhysics Foundation ModelWorld Model Updated 2026-10-23 6.7
Technology 8 · Business 5 · Funding 7.5 · Products 6 · Market 7 35810
Skild AI, Inc. Series C

Skild AI Deep Dive: A General Robot Foundation Model Incubated at CMU's Robotics Institute, With a USD 1.4B Series C at a USD 14B Valuation, a Conflicting Series B Size, and an ARR Figure That Is a Run-Rate Rather Than Revenue

A general robot foundation model company incubated at CMU's Robotics Institute, with a USD 1.4B Series C at a USD 14B valuation, a Series B size reported as either USD 135M or USD 500M, and a USD 100M ARR that is a run-rate while confirmed revenue stands at USD 50M.

Physical AIWorld ModelEmbodied AI Updated 2026-10-23 7.7
Technology 8 · Business 7.5 · Funding 8 · Products 7.5 · Market 7.5 35810
Shanghai Songying Technology Co., Ltd. Series A

Songying Deep Dive: A Huawei-Cloud-Alumni Startup Building a Domestic Physical AI Operating System, With ORCA OS Positioning Against NVIDIA Omniverse, Three Incompatible Financing Narratives, and a Verifiable Third-Party Anchor in a CNY 20 Million Minority Investment

A physical AI operating system vendor founded by Huawei Cloud alumni, whose ORCA OS spans the full path from simulation training to real-robot deployment, whose 2026 financing sequence reads differently across three narratives, and which reports serving close to a hundred state-owned enterprise clients while its social insurance headcount is seventeen.

Physical AIEmbodied AISynthetic Data Updated 2026-10-23 6.2
Technology 7 · Business 5.5 · Funding 6 · Products 6.5 · Market 6 35810
Nanjing Tianfu Software Co., Ltd. Series C

Tianfu (Nanjing Tianfu Software) Deep Dive: A 2011-founded Chinese Intelligent-CAE Veteran That Closed a Several-Hundred-Million-RMB Series C, Pivoted to an Industrial World Model in 2024, With Unreconcilable Financing and Valuation Records and No Disclosed Revenue

A 2011-founded Chinese intelligent-CAE vendor with in-house AICFD, AIFEM and AIPOD, a 2022 Series C of several hundred million RMB, an Industrial World Model pivot since 2024, 400-plus customers, and no disclosed revenue.

Physical AIEngineering AICAE Updated 2026-10-23 7
Technology 7.5 · Business 6.5 · Funding 6.5 · Products 7.5 · Market 7 35810
Shenzhen TenFong Technology Co., Ltd. Series B

TenFong Deep Dive: An Academician-Led Chinese Industrial Simulation Software Vendor Whose Official Timeline and Database Records Use Incompatible Round Names, With an Official Financing PDF and an Investment Database Both on File

An academician-led Chinese industrial simulation vendor with in-house SATO, GeoFormer and DragSolver and nearly twenty CAE products, whose official financing PDF conflicts with investment databases on round naming and differs from media amounts by an order of magnitude.

Physical AINeural OperatorCFD Updated 2026-10-23 6.8
Technology 7.5 · Business 6 · Funding 6.5 · Products 7.5 · Market 6.5 35810
BeyondMath Ltd Seed

BeyondMath Deep Dive: A Foundation Physics AI on the Neural-Operator Route, a $19M Consortium Budget, and Three Misread Facts

BeyondMath is a UK foundation physics AI company on the neural-operator route, with an $18.5M seed round. Its strongest evidence is a third-party-published 960x speedup and the DrivAerML benchmark; its biggest misreading risk is a consortium budget read as a Honeywell contract.

Physical AINeural OperatorSurrogate Model Updated 2026-10-22 6.2
Technology 7 · Business 5.5 · Funding 7 · Products 6 · Market 5.5 35810
Inductiva Research Labs, S.A. Closed

Inductiva Deep Dive: A Closed Case in Open-Solver Orchestration, and Eight Premises That Must Be Corrected

A Porto hybrid-HPC orchestration platform that ceased operations on January 31, 2026. Official positioning is a Python API over open-source solvers; the only verifiable benchmark is a vendor-reported 15.65x cross-model GPU comparison, and seed funding was EUR 2.25M.

Physical AICloud SimulationCloud HPC Updated 2026-10-22 4.5
Technology 6.5 · Business 3 · Funding 3.5 · Products 5.5 · Market 4 35810
Mistral AI Series D

Mistral AI: How Physics AI Moved From Language Models to EUV Lithography and Nuclear Power

Europe's second-highest valued private technology company after a EUR 3B Series D led by Samsung. Its Physics AI line, built on the Emmi AI acquisition, is already deployed in ASML lithography diagnostics and EDF nuclear engineering, and it co-builds a collider-physics foundation model with CERN.

Physical AIPhysics Foundation ModelSovereign AI Updated 2026-10-22 8.4
Technology 8.5 · Business 8 · Funding 9.5 · Products 7.5 · Market 8.5 35810
Monolith AI Limited Acquired

Monolith AI: The British Engineering-AI Firm That Cut Physical Test Counts Instead of Accelerating Simulation, Now Inside CoreWeave

Monolith AI cuts physical test counts through test plan optimisation and test data validation; CoreWeave acquired it in October 2025 on undisclosed terms, and post-deal team and brand signals point in opposite directions.

Physical AIEngineering AISurrogate Model Updated 2026-10-22 6.7
Technology 7.5 · Business 6.5 · Funding 6.5 · Products 7 · Market 6 35810
NAVASTO GmbH (now Autodesk NavPack) Acquired

NAVASTO: Moving Solver Insight Onto the Designer's Desk, and How Autodesk Bought That Entry Point

NAVASTO spent a decade moving AI surrogate insight onto the designer's desk; Autodesk announced the acquisition on October 15, 2024 and closed it in December, and the product family now ships as Autodesk NavPack.

Physical AISurrogate ModelGeometric Deep Learning Updated 2026-10-22 6.3
Technology 7.5 · Business 6.5 · Funding 4.5 · Products 7 · Market 6 35810
Rescale, Inc. Series D

Rescale Deep Dive: An HPC Operating System and Desktop Engineering Workbench in the Cloud, a $115M Series D, and Five Misread Facts

Rescale is an HPC operating system and desktop engineering workbench in the cloud, closing a $115M Series D in April 2025. Its moat sits in license brokering and multi-cloud orchestration rather than in physics algorithms; three widely repeated claims need correcting.

Physical AICloud HPCMulti-cloud Scheduling Updated 2026-10-22 7.2
Technology 7.5 · Business 6.5 · Funding 8 · Products 7 · Market 7 35810
SimScale GmbH Series C

SimScale Deep Dive: A Cloud CAE Platform Built on Core-Hour Subscriptions, EUR 52M of Equity Kept Separate from EUR 25M of Debt, and Five Misread Facts

Munich cloud CAE platform that converts solver licences and workstations into core-hour subscriptions; EUR 52M of confirmable equity, EUR 25M of EIB debt kept separate, and no public revenue or paid-customer data.

Physical AICloud SimulationCAE Updated 2026-10-22 7.3
Technology 7.5 · Business 7 · Funding 7.5 · Products 7.5 · Market 7 35810
World Labs Acquired

World Labs: Fei-Fei Li's Spatial-Intelligence Unicorn, Acquired by AMD for $8.2B

Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence company and a leader in Large World Models (Marble, RTFM, Atlas); agreed to be acquired by AMD for ~$8.2B in September 2026.

Physical AIWorld ModelSpatial Intelligence Updated 2026-10-22 7.4
Technology 8 · Business 5.5 · Funding 9 · Products 6.5 · Market 8 35810
Beijing Simulation World Engine Co., Ltd. (SimWE) Series C

SimWE: From In-House Solvers to a Physical-AI Engine, the Domestic CAE Leader and What Comes Next

SimWE built the GPU-native multi-physics platform Simdroid from its own solvers and took the top spot in China's electronics thermal simulation market in 2025 with a 14.9% share, and is now pivoting toward the physical-AI training side with its Sim-PI platform.

Physical AICAESolver Updated 2026-10-22 7.6
Technology 8 · Business 7.5 · Funding 7.5 · Products 7.5 · Market 7.5 35810
Emmi AI Acquired

Emmi AI: From Linz Spin-out to a EUR 330M Mistral Acquisition in 17 Months

A JKU and NXAI spin-out whose AB-UPT architecture took first place on five major CFD benchmarks, acquired by Mistral in May 2026 for up to EUR 330M. Third-party evaluation shows it has since been surpassed on some benchmarks.

Physical AIEngineering AIPhysics Foundation Model Updated 2026-10-21 6.9
Technology 8 · Business 6 · Funding 7.5 · Products 6.5 · Market 6.5 35810
Luminary Cloud Series B

Luminary Cloud: The Physics AI Model Factory Backed by NVentures

The Sutter Hill-backed CAE cloud that became a Physics AI Model Factory. Its SHIFT pretrained models span automotive, aerospace, crash, defense and pumps, but by 2026 NVIDIA's GeoTransolver architecture had overtaken their accuracy.

Physical AICloud SimulationNeural Operator Updated 2026-10-21 7.5
Technology 7.5 · Business 7 · Funding 8 · Products 7.5 · Market 7.5 35810
Neural Concept Series C

Neural Concept: An EPFL Spin-out Betting on Neural Surrogates, with $138M Raised

An EPFL Computer Vision Laboratory spin-out replacing parts of CFD and FEA with geodesic-convolution neural surrogates. It closed a $100M Series C in December 2025, bringing total funding to $138.1M. Customer-percentage claims have been rewritten repeatedly, every accuracy figure is self-reported, and revenue has never been disclosed. This report adjudicates twenty discrepancies line by line.

Physical AIEngineering AISurrogate Model Updated 2026-10-21 7.5
Technology 7.5 · Business 6.5 · Funding 9 · Products 7.5 · Market 7 35810
Prometheus Series B

Prometheus: A $41B Mark, $18.2B Raised, and Not Yet a Product

Prometheus, co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, closed a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation in June 2026. Its team and capital are top-tier globally, but as of October 21, 2026 it still has no product, no customer and no revenue.

Physical AIEngineering AIArtificial General Engineer Updated 2026-10-21 6
Technology 7.5 · Business 3 · Funding 9.5 · Products 2.5 · Market 7.5 35810
PhysicsX Series C

PhysicsX: Pretrained Geometry and Physics for Industrial Engineering at a $2.4B Mark

PhysicsX builds Large Physics Models and Large Geometry Models for industrial simulation, trained on high-fidelity corpora generated with Siemens Simcenter solvers. It closed a $300M Series C at a $2.4B valuation in June 2026. Capital and training-data access are its strengths; independent evidence on out-of-distribution generalization remains thin.

Physical AIEngineering AIPhysics Foundation Model Updated 2026-10-21 8.2
Technology 8.5 · Business 7.5 · Funding 9.5 · Products 7.5 · Market 8 35810
Suochen Technology SH 688507 Public

Suochen Technology: The Pain of Becoming a Physics-AI Platform from a CAE Vendor

Suochen Technology has the most complete set of in-house multi-physics solvers among Chinese CAE vendors and is rebuilding its Tiangong simulation base into the Kaiwu physical-AI platform. But in H1 2026 revenue grew 26.8% while net loss widened to CNY 78.7M. This report dissects the real depth of its technology moat, the quality of growth brought by acquisitions, and its gap with Ansys and Siemens in physical AI.

Physical AICAESolver Updated 2026-10-21 6.3
Technology 8 · Business 5 · Funding 5.5 · Products 7.5 · Market 5.5 35810
Vinci AI Series B

Vinci AI: Turning Physics Simulation from a Checkpoint into a Continuous Constraint

Vinci AI runs thermal-mechanical simulation directly at manufacturing resolution using a physics foundation model and GPU-native kernels. Its peer-reviewed EPTC 2025 paper reports under 2% deviation from commercial solvers at 240x acceleration. The company closed a $250M Series B at a $1.5B valuation in October 2026, with about $296M raised in total. The technical validation is solid; cross-domain expansion and named customers remain unproven.

Physical AIPhysics Foundation ModelEDA Updated 2026-10-21 7.1
Technology 8 · Business 5.5 · Funding 9 · Products 7 · Market 6 35810