Physical Superintelligence Launches AI Physics Lab With $58M Seed Round

Physical Superintelligence launched in Cambridge, Massachusetts with $58 million in seed funding, the company announced in a press release. The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, with participation from Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, Solari, Susa, SV Angel, Valkyrie, Balaji Srinivasan, Anthony Scaramucci, and individual investors from OpenAI, NVIDIA, SoftBank Energy, Oracle, Hugging Face, JUMP Capital, and the a16z Scout Fund.

PSI was founded by Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross. The company is building an AI physics research lab centered on Emmy, a platform described as a team of virtual physicists that uses a reasoning engine and curated simulations to build physics models and test hypotheses in parallel.

Emmy’s first commercial use is optimization for terrestrial and orbital data centers. The system targets design problems across power, cooling, networking, and compute, including planning before construction and retrofits for existing facilities.

PSI is also the founding technical partner for the Fermi Explorer Mission, a privately funded interstellar mission to Alpha Centauri. The company validated the mission physics, found a more efficient trajectory within mass and budget limits, and will add scientific instruments for the flight.