Physical Superintelligence (PSI), co-founded by Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, has launched with an ambitious mission: to build an AI-native physics lab staffed by "virtual physicists." The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup aims to create higher-fidelity world models, engineer physical systems beyond human design, and ultimately discover new physical laws. This approach seeks to overcome the limitations of traditional human-led scientific discovery by leveraging advanced AI.

PSI secured $58 million in seed funding, led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an investment firm focused on climate change solutions. Additional investors include Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, Solari, Susa, and Ron Conway's SV Angel, alongside individual investors from leading tech companies like OpenAI and NVIDIA. This substantial early-stage investment underscores the belief that AI can fundamentally transform the pace and scope of scientific advancement.

The company's core platform, named Emmy (after physicist Emmy Noether), is designed to industrialize physics discovery. As an initial application, PSI is productizing Emmy for optimizing terrestrial and orbital data centers. Furthermore, PSI is already a founding technical partner in a privately funded interstellar space mission, where its technology validated mission physics and identified a more efficient trajectory. This demonstrates the immediate, practical applications of their advanced AI models.

Unlike conventional scientific research that relies heavily on human intuition and experimentation, PSI's model proposes an AI system that reasons like a theorist, validates like a computational physicist, and tests like an experimentalist. This integrated, AI-driven methodology promises to accelerate breakthroughs in areas like materials science, energy, and climate solutions, which are often bottlenecked by the complexity of fundamental physics. The open-sourcing of their AI copilot, "Get Physics Done," also indicates a commitment to broader scientific community engagement.