- Physical Superintelligence (PSI) was launched on September 1, 2026 by Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, announcing $58 million in seed funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
- PSI is an AI-native physics lab staffed by virtual physicists, built to create higher-fidelity world models, engineer physical systems beyond human design, and discover new physical laws.
- The seed round included investors such as Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, Solari, Susa, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Valkyrie, Balaji Srinivasan, and Anthony Scaramucci, along with individual investors from OpenAI, NVIDIA, SoftBank Energy, Oracle, Hugging Face, JUMP Capital, and the a16z Scout Fund.
- CEO and Co-founder Matt Pines stated: “PSI aims to industrialize the discovery of new physics... Today, that means giving our customers a measurable edge to design and run their data centers more efficiently. Tomorrow, it means going after physics problems that have been untouched for decades.”
- Carmichael Roberts at Breakthrough Energy Ventures said AI has the potential to fundamentally change the pace of scientific discovery, and that physics is one area where that impact could be profound.
- PSI’s core platform is Emmy, named for physicist Amalie Emmy Noether, described as a team of virtual physicists built on a sovereign reasoning engine and a large, curated inventory of simulations.
- Emmy constructs higher-fidelity world models, decomposes research problems into trees of verifiable hypotheses, and tests them in parallel, unlike a human physicist who carries one mental model.
- The first commercial application is AI data centers and AI factories, terrestrial and orbital, where Emmy uses physics-native reasoning and simulation to solve multiphysics design problems spanning power, cooling, network, and compute.
Physical Superintelligence (PSI), launched on September 1, 2026, has raised $58 million in seed funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an AI-native physics lab that employs virtual physicists to enhance scientific discovery.125
CEO and Co-founder Matt Pines stated, “PSI aims to industrialize the discovery of new physics.” The company focuses on providing clients with a competitive edge in designing and operating data centers more efficiently, while also tackling long-standing physics challenges.4
The funding round included participation from notable investors such as Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, Solari, Susa, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Valkyrie, Balaji Srinivasan, and Anthony Scaramucci, along with individual investors from OpenAI, NVIDIA, SoftBank Energy, Oracle, Hugging Face, JUMP Capital, and the a16z Scout Fund.3
PSI’s core platform, named Emmy after physicist Amalie Emmy Noether, utilizes a sovereign reasoning engine and a curated inventory of simulations. Unlike human physicists, Emmy constructs higher-fidelity world models and decomposes research problems into verifiable hypotheses, testing them in parallel.678
The initial commercial applications of Emmy are focused on AI data centers and AI factories, both terrestrial and orbital. PSI claims that Emmy employs physics-native reasoning to address multiphysics design challenges, optimizing infrastructure before construction and retrofitting existing facilities for improved performance.910
“The Cambridge, Massachusetts company's platform, Emmy, is named for physicist Amalie Emmy Noether and uses a sovereign reasoning engine to test hypotheses in parallel. CEO Matt Pines said PSI aims to industrialize the discovery of new physics, starting with data center efficiency.”
