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Engineering simulation

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Engineers test designs in computer simulations of airflow, heat and stress before building them, but such simulations can take hours or days. Engineering simulation AI trains models on physics data so they can predict similar results far faster. PhysicsX, headquartered in the UK, builds models that predict how aircraft parts, cars and yachts will behave, including LGM-Aero for aircraft shapes (per the site). BeyondMath builds a "generative physics model" for engineering teams, and Monumo uses AI-driven simulation to design electric motors for vehicle makers (per the site).

Context

The AI for Science Strategy says there is no AlphaFold-style breakthrough yet in fluid dynamics. 20 November 2025 gov.uk/government/publications/ai-for-science-stWe don't have AlphaFold equivalents in materials science, fluid dynamics or neuroscience
PhysicsX says its AI models predict how physical products behave in seconds rather than hours or days. 8 June 2026 physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-300m-serIts AI models predict physical behavior in seconds rather than hours or days.
PhysicsX raised a $300 million Series C led by Temasek at about $2.4 billion valuation (reported). 8 June 2026 physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-300m-serat a valuation of approximately $2.4 billion
BeyondMath's investor CIC says its physics model delivers results up to 1,000 times faster than supercomputer methods; its seed round reached $18.5 million. 25 February 2026 cic.vc/beyondmath-completes-18-5-million-seed-rodelivering results up to 1000x faster than traditional supercomputing methods.
The UK Compute Roadmap commits up to £750 million to a new national supercomputer service in Edinburgh, planned for 2027. 17 July 2025 gov.uk/government/publications/uk-compute-roadmaup to £750 million for a new national supercomputer service in Edinburgh

Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026): introduction and facts as the researchers wrote them; "(per the site)" marks a sentence resting on this site's own description of that lab.

Record	What it is	Place	Links	Confidence
Ai.rplaneChips, models and products	A free public web app, built on LGM-Aero, that creates new aircraft designs and estimates their performance. released (free public app)Key facts Launched 4 Dec 2024 at airplane.physicsx.ai; also on the PhysicsX platform. Companion blog "Welcome to Ai.rplane" (4 Dec 2024).Made by PhysicsX · 2024-12-04	Leonard Circus, London (EC2A 4DQ) (via PhysicsX)	physicsx.ai/newsroom/introducing-lgm-aero-genai- · physicsx.ai/newsroom	lab's own pages
Anser (Monumo)Chips, models and products	Monumo's own AI engine that tries out electric-motor design changes across millions of simulations a day. liveKey facts Applied to electric motors for EVs, home appliances, industry and roboticsMade by Monumo · 2026-04-07	University of Warwick Science Park, Coventry (CV4 7EZ) (via Monumo)	uktech.news/the-circuit/in-conversation-with-mon · uktech.news/news/founder-interviews/monumo-found	one source
BeyondMathCompanies	London company building a generative physics model that produces engineering simulations quickly for engineering teams. Profile Founded 2022 Founders Alan Patterson — co-founder and CEO; Darren Garvey — co-founder Chief executive Alan Patterson — from null Hq London (England: London); other_offices: null Headcount null (plans to double headcount in 2026, per CIC) What it does A London company building a generative "foundational physics" AI model trained on first-principles physics. Engineers use it to run simulations of airflow, heat and similar problems much faster than conventional simulation. It works with customers in cars, aerospace, electronics, data-centre design and chip-making, including a Formula 1 team. Research focus physics foundation models; engineering simulation (aerodynamics, thermal management) Models and products foundational physics AI model (unnamed) — 2026 Customers or partners named Honeywell — STRATA, a "$19 million, 3-year project" — reported 25 February 2026 — https://www.cic.vc/beyondmath-completes-18-5-million-seed-round-to-scale-worlds-largest-foundational-physics-ai-model/; NVIDIA and AWS — "established partnerships" — 25 February 2026 — same URL Compute claims results "up to 1000x faster than traditional supercomputing methods" — February 2026 Funding total as published 18,500,000 USD (seed round total; £13.8m) — as of 25 February 2026 — https://www.cic.vc/beyondmath-completes-18-5-million-seed-round-to-scale-worlds-largest-foundational-physics-ai-model/ Rounds found 2024-08-20 — seed — 8,500,000 USD — UP.Partners (already DEAL-LB-132); 2026-02-25 — seed extension — 10,000,000 USD (£7.4m) — Cambridge Innovation Capital — UP.Partners, Insight Partners, InMotion Ventures (already DEAL-LAB-034) Status now Active London company; closed its seed round at $18.5m in February 2026. Labs Round 7 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: verified. Sources cic.vc/beyondmath-completes-18-5-million-seed-ro cic.vc/beyondmath-completes-18-5-million-seed-ro uktech.news/ai/beyondmath-raises-seed-extension- Key facts and news (5) Founders Alan Patterson — CEO and co-founder; Darren Garvey — co-founder; both previously at Google and eBay one source uktech.news/ai/beyondmath-funding-20240820 Compute Uses NVIDIA DGX H200 systems to train its physics solver (2024-08-20) one source uktech.news/ai/beyondmath-funding-20240820 Funding as published (reported) Completed seed round £13.8m after a $10m (£7.4m) extension (2026-02-25) one source uktech.news/ai/beyondmath-raises-seed-extension- Offices Cambridge, UK (UKTN, 2024-08-20); London-based (UKTN, 2026-02-25) one source uktech.news/ai/beyondmath-funding-20240820 Where it is based Cambridge per UKTN (August 2024); London per UKTN (February 2026). one source Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.	London	Companies House · uktech.news/ai/beyondmath-raises-seed-extension- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.	verified
LGM-Aero (Large Geometry Model for aerospace)Chips, models and products	A PhysicsX model that quickly generates aircraft shapes and predicts how they will perform aerodynamically and structurally. released (on PhysicsX platform)Key facts Announced 4 Dec 2024. Figures (4 Dec 2024): trained on more than 25 million meshes (more than 10 billion vertices) and tens of thousands of CFD and FEA simulations; predictions in under a second versus several hours. Training data generated with Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ and Nastran (see DEAL-LAB-7004).Made by PhysicsX · 2024-12-04	Leonard Circus, London (EC2A 4DQ) (via PhysicsX)	physicsx.ai/newsroom/introducing-lgm-aero-genai- · physicsx.ai/newsroom/siemens-physicsx-collaborat	lab's own pages
Mach42 (formerly Machine Discovery)Companies · also on Software and tools	Oxford University spin-out whose machine-learning software predicts how designs, starting with analogue chips, will behave. renamed Models and products (1) Mach42 Discovery Platform (Mach42) 2026-07-21 liveMach42's AI platform that builds fast stand-in models of slow simulations, first for analogue chip design. Why it is here: Oxford physics spin-out whose neural networks emulate slow simulations, first in chip design Key facts and news (1) News 16 September 2024 "Introducing Mach42" (rename from Machine Discovery) one source mach42.ai/resource-IntroducingMach42.html Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.	Oxford (OX4 4GP)	Companies House · uktech.news/ai/machine-discovery-simulations-fun · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · mach42.ai/resource-IntroducingMach42.html	verified
Mach42 Discovery Platform (Mach42)Chips, models and products	Mach42's AI platform that builds fast stand-in models of slow simulations, first for analogue chip design. liveKey facts Offerings: silicon verification, circuit model creation (SPICE-compatible surrogate models), multi-physics simulationMade by Mach42 (formerly Machine Discovery) · 2026-07-21	Oxford (OX4 4GP) (via Mach42 (formerly Machine Discovery))	mach42.ai/ · uktech.news/ai/machine-discovery-simulations-fun	lab's own pages
Monolith AICompanies · also on Software and tools, Start-ups	Makes machine-learning software that engineers use to learn from physical test data so they can run fewer tests on products such as cars and batteries. acquiredWhy it is here: London AI engineering software that applies machine learning to product test data (acquired 2025-10-06; deal already on site) Key facts and news (1) Customers and partners BMW, Honda, BAE Systems, Siemens (as of 2021-08-23); founded 2016 by Richard Ahlfeld one source uktech.news/news/london-ai-startup-monolith-ai-f Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.	London (SE1 9EA)	Companies House · coreweave.com/news/coreweave-to-acquire-monolith · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/london-ai-startup-monolith-ai-f	verified
MonumoCompanies · also on Start-ups	Uses AI-driven simulation to design electric motors for vehicle makers (description from Package 1, not re-opened). Profile Founded 2021 Founders Dominic Vergine — founder (CEO in 2024 sources; former VP of Sustainability at Arm) Chief executive Jarek (Jaroslaw) Rzepecki — "recently appointed" as of 7 Apr 2026 (CTO in Feb 2024) Chief scientist or research lead Not stated (Rzepecki was CTO; current CTO not named) Hq Cambridge (England: East of England) and Coventry (England: West Midlands); other_offices: not stated Headcount 28 — 7 Aug 2024 — https://tech.eu/2024/08/07/monumos-innovations-in-electric-drive-design-a-ps750000-boost-from-innovate-uk/ (single_source) What it does Monumo gives engineers AI software that designs mechanical parts, mainly electric motors for cars, home appliances, industrial machines and robots. Its engine runs millions of simulations a day to explore motor designs. Research focus AI and machine learning for electric-motor simulation and optimisation; 3D generative design. Models and products Anser — proprietary AI design engine — named Apr 2026; 3D-GAIT (3D Generative-AI Technology) — automated design generation, simulation and evaluation, Innovate UK-funded — Aug 2024; switched reluctance motor prototype — licensing expected from 2025 — Feb 2024 Customers or partners named University of Nottingham PEMC group and hofer powertrain UK — Innovate UK project partners — 7 Aug 2024 — https://tech.eu/2024/08/07/monumos-innovations-in-electric-drive-design-a-ps750000-boost-from-innovate-uk/ Funding total as published "more than £10m" — as of 7 Apr 2026 — https://www.uktech.news/the-circuit/in-conversation-with-monumos-jarek-rzepecki-20260407 Rounds found Feb 2024 — seed — £10.5m — angel investors, none named (already DEAL-LAB-4021); 7 Aug 2024 — Innovate UK grant — £750,000 — Innovate UK (new DEAL-LAB-16003) Awards and programmes Innovate UK grant £750,000 for 3D-GAIT — Aug 2024 Status now Trading under a new CEO, Jarek Rzepecki, who aims to make it the default design platform for electric motors. Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: one source (trade only; CEO change needs a primary source). Sources uktech.news/the-circuit/in-conversation-with-mon tech.eu/2024/02/22/how-monumos-proprietary-tech- tech.eu/2024/08/07/monumos-innovations-in-electr uktech.news/news/founder-interviews/monumo-found Models and products (1) Anser (Monumo) 2026-04-07 liveMonumo's own AI engine that tries out electric-motor design changes across millions of simulations a day. Key facts and news (5) Founded 2021; Cambridge and Coventry one source uktech.news/news/founder-interviews/monumo-found Founders Dominic Vergine — founder (CEO as of 2024-02-23; formerly VP sustainability at Arm) one source uktech.news/news/founder-interviews/monumo-found Chief executive Jarek Rzepecki — "recently appointed" CEO (as of 2026-04-07) one source uktech.news/the-circuit/in-conversation-with-mon Models released Anser — proprietary AI engine (new record BIZ-LAB-12022) one source uktech.news/the-circuit/in-conversation-with-mon Chief executive (reported) Jarek Rzepecki, earlier its CTO (UKTN, 7 April 2026; trade, one source). one source Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.	University of Warwick Science Park, Coventry (CV4 7EZ)	Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/founder-interviews/monumo-found · uktech.news/the-circuit/in-conversation-with-mon · tech.eu/2024/02/22/how-monumos-proprietary-tech-	one source
PhysicsXCompanies	Builds AI models that predict how physical products such as aircraft parts, cars and yachts will behave, so engineers can design and test them faster. Profile Founders Jacomo Corbo — Co-Founder & CEO; Robin Tuluie — Founder and Chairman Chief executive Jacomo Corbo — from null Chief scientist or research lead Dael Williamson — Chief Technology and Platform Officer (from 1 Oct 2026) Other leaders Chris Wigley — COO (appointed 12 Nov 2025) Hq London (England: London) — Victoria House, 1 Leonard Circus, EC2A 4DQ; other_offices: New York; Singapore (Asia-Pacific hub, Oct 2026); growing presence in San Francisco Bay Area Headcount more than 300 — 8 Jun 2026 — https://www.physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-300m-series-c-to-accelerate-physics-ai-for-industrial-engineering; 20 in Singapore, target over 100 within three years — 8 Oct 2026 (UK headcount not published) What it does Builds AI models that predict physical behaviour — airflow, heat, stress — so engineers can test and optimise designs far faster than with conventional simulation. Sold as an AI-native engineering platform to aerospace and defence, automotive, semiconductor, energy and materials companies. Research focus "Large Physics Models" (larger pre-trained physics AI models, in development); generative optimisation; neural operators; agentic engineering Models and products PX-Car-Aero-v1 — automotive aerodynamics model — 7 Aug 2026; Large Physics Models — in development — 8 Jun 2026; AI-native engineering platform — ongoing Customers or partners named Fortescue — expanded partnership — 27 Oct 2026 — https://www.physicsx.ai/newsroom; GB1 (Britain's America's Cup challenge) — yacht design — 13 Mar 2026 and 21 Oct 2026 — same url; Seatrium — physics AI for offshore and marine design — 8 Oct 2026 — https://www.physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-launches-asia-pacific-hub-in-singapore-to-scale-ai-powered-industrial-engineering-across-the-region; ASTAR — five-year partnership, joint S$40m commitment — 8 Oct 2026 — same url; Siemens — data centre power infrastructure (with NVIDIA) — 17 Mar 2026 — https://www.physicsx.ai/newsroom; CoreWeave — compute partnership — 11 Mar 2026 — same url; Deutsche Telekom — multi-year partnership — 18 Nov 2025 — same url; Microsoft — selected for Agentic Launchpad — 18 Dec 2025 — same url; Siemens — deep physics simulation — 4 Dec 2024 — https://www.physicsx.ai/newsroom/siemens-physicsx-collaborate-to-build-ai-based-deep-physics-simulation Compute CoreWeave partnership for high-performance physics AI — 11 Mar 2026; live on the European Industrial AI Cloud — 4 Feb 2026 (newsroom titles) Valuation reported about 2,400,000,000 USD — 8 Jun 2026 — company only Rounds found 2026-06-08 — Series C — 300,000,000 USD — Temasek — M&G Investments, Intrepid Growth Partners (new); Applied Materials, Atomico, General Catalyst, July Fund, NGP, NVIDIA, Radius, Siemens (existing); 2025-11-19 — Series B extension (amount not opened) Uk government links British Business Bank in the Series C (held as DEAL-INV-004); no government contract found Status now Raised a $300m Series C at about $2.4bn in June 2026 and opened a Singapore hub in October 2026. Labs Round 7 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: single_source. Sources* physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-300m-ser physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-300m-ser physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-300m-ser physicsx.ai/newsroom physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-launches-asia-paci physicsx.ai/newsroom/siemens-physicsx-collaborat Models and products (4) PX-Car-Aero-v1 2026-08-07 announced (article)A PhysicsX physics-AI model for car aerodynamics. PhysicsX Large Physics Models on CoreWeave (private, domain-specific models) 2026-03-11 released (enterprise)A PhysicsX service that lets industrial customers train private physics AI models on their own data on CoreWeave's cloud. LGM-Aero (Large Geometry Model for aerospace) 2024-12-04 released (on PhysicsX platform)A PhysicsX model that quickly generates aircraft shapes and predicts how they will perform aerodynamically and structurally. Ai.rplane 2024-12-04 released (free public app)A free public web app, built on LGM-Aero, that creates new aircraft designs and estimates their performance. Key facts and news (8) Models released PXTransolver (~28M parameters, Transolver-based) trained on PXNetCar (20,486 geometries with RANS simulations) plus public datasets (25,761 total) (2026-03-03) one source physicsx.ai/newsroom/scaling-physics-ai-for-auto Research leads Dael Williamson — Chief Technology and Platform Officer (2026-10-01) one source physicsx.ai/newsroom Research leads Chris Wigley — COO (2025-11-12) one source physicsx.ai/newsroom Offices London, New York, Singapore (Asia-Pacific hub 2026-10-08) one source physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-launches-asia-paci Awards 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (2025-11-07) one source physicsx.ai/newsroom News 21 October 2026 PhysicsX and GB1 America's Cup yacht design shown at NVIDIA GTC Berlin one source physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-and-gb1-unveil-new 16 March 2026 "PhysicsX Announces Advancement to Open Standards for Physics AI, Powered by NVIDIA" one source physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-advancem 4 February 2026 "From Compute to Capability: PhysicsX Goes Live on the European Industrial AI Cloud" one source physicsx.ai/newsroom/from-compute-to-capability- Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.	Leonard Circus, London (EC2A 4DQ)	Companies House · physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-announces-300m-ser · tech.eu/2026/06/08/physicsx-raises-300m-at-24bn- · uktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-this · physicsx.ai/newsroom/physicsx-raises-135m-series	verified
PhysicsX Large Physics Models on CoreWeave (private, domain-specific models)Chips, models and products	A PhysicsX service that lets industrial customers train private physics AI models on their own data on CoreWeave's cloud. released (enterprise)Key facts Announced 11 Mar 2026 in London: PhysicsX platform runs on CoreWeave; enterprise customers train private domain-specific Large Physics Models; PhysicsX also trains its pre-trained models there. No financial terms. See DEAL-LAB-7006.Made by PhysicsX · 2026-03-11	Leonard Circus, London (EC2A 4DQ) (via PhysicsX)	physicsx.ai/newsroom	one source
PX-Car-Aero-v1Chips, models and products	A PhysicsX physics-AI model for car aerodynamics. announced (article)Key facts Article dated 7 Aug 2026 ("Part II"); Part I "Scaling Physics AI for Automotive Aerodynamics" dated 3 Mar 2026. Article page could not be opened, so figures are not recorded.Made by PhysicsX · 2026-08-07	Leonard Circus, London (EC2A 4DQ) (via PhysicsX)	physicsx.ai/newsroom	one source
SecondmindCompanies · also on Software and tools	Cambridge-founded AI company; the lead says it sells machine-learning software that helps car makers design and calibrate engines and vehicles (not verified here). Models and products (1) GPflow, GPflux and Trieste (Secondmind Labs open-source libraries) 2026-10-31 (as read) released (open source)Secondmind Labs' open-source software for building Gaussian-process models, deep Gaussian processes and active-learning Bayesian optimisation. Why it is here: Cambridge machine-learning lab (Secondmind Labs) behind GPflow and Trieste, selling active-learning software for vehicle design and calibration Selected papers (4) Density ratio-free doubly robust proxy causal learning (Bozkurt, Zenati, Meunier, Xu, Gretton) one source Omnipresent yet overlooked: Heat kernels in combinatorial Bayesian optimization (Doumont, Picheny, Borovitskiy, Moss) one source Inducing Point Allocation for Sparse Gaussian Processes in High-Throughput Bayesian Optimization (Moss, Ober, Picheny) one source Neural Diffusion Processes one source Key facts and news (4) Chief scientist Carl Edward Rasmussen, Chief Science Officer; Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge one source secondmind.ai/secondmind-labs Awards Three best paper awards: ICML 2019; AISTATS 2020 and 2021; seven patents one source secondmind.ai/secondmind-labs Customers and partners Mazda (59.7% fewer engineering hours for calibration maps); SCAE partnership for Japanese OEMs (undated) one source secondmind.ai/ Chief scientist Carl Edward Rasmussen — Chief Science Officer; Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge one source secondmind.ai/research/labs Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.	London (registered office EC2V 6DN)	Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/cambridge-ai-startup-prowler-io · secondmind.ai/secondmind-labs · secondmind.ai/	verified