Analysis

August 2, 2023

Roll over Oppenheimer: a new AI trained on the laws of physics could unlock the universe

BeyondMath is a Cambridge-based startup training AI models on the laws of physics. One day it might understand the universe better than humans


Tim Smith

3 min read

Oppenheimer spent years delving into the mysteries of the universe with little more than a blackboard and his brain in his quest to split the atom. Now imagine that he'd had a hyper-intelligent companion that could understand every physics problem known to man and calculate complex tests in seconds — the film would have been a lot shorter if nothing else.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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