Zenithon

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• 2026-09-30Zenithon's founder: make simulation a million times faster first, then close the gap to experimentInterviewAlex Higginbottom · Scaling Europe

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• 2026-09-30Zenithon raises a $10M seed to build world models for fusion, rocket and chip-making physicsCapital

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• 2026-09-30Seed · $10MconfirmedWith Backed VC, Lunar Ventures, Seraphim Space, MMC Ventures, SOSVStated use: train large world models; split evenly between hiring and compute, to release a new model every three months and grow the team in San Francisco and across the US

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• 2026-10-13Tianxu Intelligent TechnologyPre-A+ · tens of millions of yuanBuilds a weather model for the energy industry (wind speed and solar irradiance rather than general forecasts) with the China Meteorological Administration's public service centre, and is putting the model on satellites of its own to make the observations it trains on.
• 2026-10-13Drylab AISeed · $3MAgents that run computational biology workflows end to end (planning the analysis, choosing among more than 800 tools and databases, getting the compute and working through failures), with a separate model of its own checking each analytical decision and flagging method errors; installed on a customer's private infrastructure or workstations.
• 2026-10-06VinciSeries B · $250MBuilds a physics foundation model with GPU-native solvers that gives engineers solver-accurate thermal, thermo-mechanical and fluid results while a design is still changing, starting with semiconductors.
• 2026-09-30Autopoiesis SciencesSeed · $11MBuilds AI for scientific reasoning: Aristotle, a research assistant that helps scientists form hypotheses and weigh evidence, and Columbus-1, an autonomous system for long research problems. It says it builds training environments and datasets from expert scientists' judgment.
• 2026-09-24Metis ReasoningRound (unnamed) · tens of millions of dollarsEarly-stage lab building AI meant to reason and act reliably beyond its training data, naming embodied AI, science and engineering as target fields.
• 2026-09-22MirendilRound (unnamed) · up to $1BTrains models meant to do AI research themselves and builds a platform around them, so labs in drug discovery, chemistry or biology can do frontier AI work without becoming AI labs.

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