Backing from semiconductor and manufacturing leaders will scale Flexcompute's research toward AI that understands the laws of physics, not just patterns in data

BOSTON, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Flexcompute, the physics company, today announced strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., among other investors. The funding will accelerate Flexcompute's work on the Physics World Model: AI that predicts how any design will behave in the real world by learning the laws of physics themselves, from a chip package warping under heat to a spacecraft reentering the atmosphere. Details of the investment were not disclosed.

Today's AI learns from the past: text, images, simulation results. Flexcompute takes a different approach. Its team of more than 70 PhDs has built CFD, electromagnetic, structural and thermal solvers from the ground up on GPUs. Through Tokenized Physics, Flexcompute builds both neural networks and first-principles physics directly into the Physics World Model, so every prediction obeys the same conservation laws as the physical world and stays accurate on designs, even ones the model has never seen.