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Scaling Europe

PhysicsX helps companies design & manufacture industrial products faster: Jacomo Corbo, PhysicsX

2026-07-17 · 6 company · 13 thematic
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jacomo corbo

Co-founder of PhysicsX, building an AI-driven engineering simulation platform for industrial companies across aerospace, semiconductors, automotive, and energy. Leads a team of ~270 people globally from London and New York.

seb johnston

Seb Johnston hosts the Scaling Europe podcast, interviewing European founders and investors about fundraising, scaling, and company building.

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AI Infrastructuretailwindscore 9/10jacomo corbo
AI inference replaces numerical simulation for industrial physics at 10,000x speedup
PhysicsX demonstrates that large physics models trained on simulation and real-world data can supersede traditional CAE, enabling high-fidelity simulation across the entire product lifecycl…
AI Applicationstailwindscore 9/10jacomo corbo
AI inference replaces numerical simulation across industrial product lifecycle
PhysicsX is moving engineering simulation from legacy numerical methods to AI inference, achieving 10,000x to 1Mx speedups while training on both simulation data and real-world measurements…
Semiconductorstailwindscore 7/10jacomo corbo
Semi-cap equipment makers and fabs adopt AI simulation for advanced packaging and process control
PhysicsX's work with semiconductor equipment manufacturers and fabs on advanced packaging and process control indicates the semi supply chain is a beachhead for AI-native simulation, with g…
Energy & Power Generationtailwindscore 7/10jacomo corbo
AI process control cuts electricity use in aluminum smelting and optimizes gas turbines
Real-time AI control of industrial processes like aluminum smelting cell baths and gas turbine operations can materially reduce energy consumption and improve yield, linking industrial AI d…
Data Center Infrastructuretailwindscore 8/10jacomo corbo
Data center supply chain from energy to cooling drives demand for industrial AI simulation
The full data center stack — gas turbines, chilling units, step-down transformers, and internal equipment — represents a massive industrial surface area where AI-driven simulation can optim…
AI Infrastructuretailwindscore 8/10jacomo corbo
Scaling laws validated for large physics models, driving compute investment
PhysicsX has established data and model-size scaling laws for pre-trained physics models analogous to those in language and robotics: larger models trained on more data show better generali…
AI Economics & Business Modelstailwindscore 8/10jacomo corbo
Scaling laws for physics models drive compute investment and horizontal platform strategy
Established data and model-size scaling laws for physics models — where larger models trained on more data generalize better zero-shot — give PhysicsX conviction to invest heavily in larger…
Robotics & Physical AItailwindscore 6/10jacomo corbo
Physics model scaling laws mirror robotics embodiment-free control progress
The compute, data, and model-size scaling laws PhysicsX has established for physics models parallel those in robotics for embodiment-free control, suggesting a shared trajectory for AI mode…
Advanced Manufacturingtailwindscore 7/10jacomo corbo
Incumbents doubling down on engineering software after decades of underinvestment
Large industrial enterprises across verticals are recognizing that bottlenecks in high-complexity engineering (500-hour simulations, complex design-of-experiments) cannot be solved with mor…
Advanced Manufacturingtailwindscore 8/10jacomo corbo
Neo-manufacturers in quantum, fusion, aerospace scaling rapidly and adopting AI simulation
A new wave of neo-manufacturers across semiconductors, quantum, fusion, and aerospace are reaching production scale and becoming major engineering organizations, creating a growing customer…
Advanced Manufacturingtailwindscore 7/10jacomo corbo
Neo-manufacturers reaching scale in semi-cap, quantum, fusion, and aerospace
A wave of newer manufacturers in capital-intensive sectors — semiconductor equipment, quantum computing, fusion energy, aerospace, and automotive — are rapidly achieving meaningful producti…
Geopolitics & Tradeheadwindscore 7/10jacomo corbo
European industrial adoption of AI simulation lags US and Asia despite policy rhetoric
While European policy and industry rhetoric supports working with AI-native startups, commercial adoption and spend rates remain materially lower than in the US and Asia, creating a geograp…
Geopolitics & Tradeheadwindscore 6/10jacomo corbo
European industrial adoption of AI lags US and Asia despite supportive rhetoric
While European policy and industry rhetoric around working with innovative smaller companies has turned positive, actual commercial momentum — adoption rates and software spend — remains ma…