Physical Super intelligence

Physical Superintelligence (PSI) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts research lab building an AI system that runs physics work at machine scale, aimed at researchers, mission planners, and industrial teams whose progress is bottlenecked by hard physical modeling. Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross launched Physical Superintelligence (PSI) on September 1, 2026, announcing $58 million in seed funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Other backers include Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, Solari, Susa, SV Angel, Valkyrie and several individual investors. The company is structured as a public benefit corporation, and the launch matters now because PSI is stepping out of stealth with both a commercial platform and a live mission attached to it. At the center of the lab is a platform called Emmy. Its core platform, Emmy, is named after physicist Amalie Emmy Noether and is designed as a collection of virtual physicists operating on a sovereign reasoning engine supported by a curated inventory of simulations. The idea is to compress the loop between hypothesis, simulation, and validated result so that new models and engineered systems can be produced far faster than a traditional lab could manage, with the goal of eventually surfacing new physical laws rather than only refining known ones. The first proof point is aerospace. PSI is the founding technical partner for the Fermi Explorer Mission, which it describes as the first AI-planned interstellar mission to Alpha Centauri. PSI validated the mission's physics and identified a substantially more efficient trajectory within the mission's mass and budget constraints. From there, the team plans to productize the same platform for terrestrial and space applications, positioning PSI as an infrastructure layer for organizations that need frontier physics work done on a timeline that human teams alone cannot hit.