Physical Superintelligence

Physical Superintelligence PBC (PSI) is a Public Benefit Corporation developing an artificial intelligence system to accelerate scientific breakthroughs, with a primary mission of discovering new physics at scale. The company was recently founded by individuals including Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, who sits on the board. PSI is building what it describes as a vertically integrated factory for physical superintelligence. This AI system is designed to reason like a theorist, validate like a computational physicist, and test like an experimentalist to drive discoveries and their commercial application. The company's core technology is an AI-driven discovery engine aimed at finding and commercializing significant breakthroughs in physics. PSI's approach is based on the 'shaped-charge model,' which focuses the power of superintelligence on a specific, challenging target—in this case, physics—to industrialize the entire domain through resulting spillover effects. PSI provides an open-source agentic AI physicist called 'GDP' (Get Physics Done) that can scope a physics problem, plan the research, perform derivations, and verify its results. The team at PSI includes physicists, engineers, and AI researchers from prominent organizations and institutions such as Google, OpenAI, Meta, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and the Perimeter Institute. The company is expanding its teams in Boston and San Francisco. As a Public Benefit Corporation, PSI's governance structure is oriented toward ensuring its powerful potential breakthroughs benefit the public broadly. The company is backed by investors including SV Angel, Valkyrie, Balaji Srinivasan, Solari Capital, and leaders from OpenAI, SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Google DeepMind. Keywords: physical superintelligence, AI, new physics, scientific discovery, artificial intelligence, computational physics, theoretical physics, machine learning, AI research, fundamental physics, applied physics, AI-accelerated discovery, public benefit corporation, GDP, Get Physics Done, agentic AI, Boston, San Francisco, Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, SV Angel, Valkyrie, Balaji Srinivasan