Feyer

Algorithms that invent groundbreaking industrial hardware.

[Feyer @feyerlabs]

Our new Nature review sets the stage for our ambition at Feyer:

What has been demonstrated for physics experiments will be achieved for industrial hardware, resulting in designs that outperform human inventions and unlock entirely new capabilities.

https://t.co/RU3BxNx9jM

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

"Europe has already lost the AI race."

I hear this bashing almost every single week on LinkedIn and X. Not so much when I talk to the teams who are actually working on it. They are trying to do something about it.

Take @FeyerLabs.

They are not building another generic wrapper application.

@FeyerLabs is developing AI systems that autonomously design novel industrial hardware. Their neural explorers are coupled directly with differentiable physics simulations, allowing them to search enormous design spaces and discover hardware that humans might never come up with themselves.

That could accelerate innovation across everything from lasers and quantum technology to microchip production.

On September 9, @Cyber_Valley celebrates its 10th anniversary here in Tübingen. And I want to show and talk about companies like @Feyerlabs that are sitting here.

They are a pretty good example of what can happen when world-class research turns into an ambitious company.

They are building right here in Tübingen and just secured €3 million in the @SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen Next Frontier AI Challenge. I spent some time on a call with their CTO @soerenarlt last week, and the level of technical ambition there is exactly what this ecosystem needs right now.

And @FeyerLabs is part of a much bigger bet. @SPRIND is deploying €125 million over 24 months to build three internationally competitive European frontier AI labs. Ten teams start with up to €3 million each, six can advance with another €8 million, and the final three can receive another €15.5 million each. Up to €26.5 million per winning team.

And this is not a research thesis invented for a startup pitch. The work builds on years of research by @soerenarlt, @MarioKrenn6240 and their collaborators into machine-driven scientific discovery.

I am going to share a lot more about what @soerenarlt, @PhylomatX, @MarioKrenn6240 and the rest of the @FeyerLabs team are building very soon.

If you want to see what European frontier AI can actually look like, keep an eye on them.

Follow for more insights into AI and robotics.

{Quick animation by me for now.
We’ll have much better visuals to share over the next few weeks ;)}

[SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation @SPRIND]

Ten teams. Five countries. Up to €26.5M each in equity-free funding to build frontier AI labs for Europe. The Next Frontier AI Stage 1 teams are here. Physical AI, world models, continual learning and automated science. Each one a serious bet on the next paradigm.