
KronosAI is a Berkeley-based startup developing foundation models for physics simulations across multiple domains including electromagnetics, acoustics, and fluidics. Their AI-powered simulation technology offers orders of magnitude faster and equally accurate results compared to traditional numerical solvers, enabling real-time design exploration and inverse design capabilities. The company targets industries such as telecommunications, semiconductors, aerospace, construction, consumer electronics, and healthcare. KronosAI's platform integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, accelerating design cycles by 100x and enabling exploration of vast design spaces with confidence. Their technology supports scalable, multi-scale, and heterogeneous system simulations, aiming to make advanced physics simulation accessible and eco-friendly engineering practices more common.

KronosAI is a Berkeley-based startup developing foundation models for physics simulations across multiple domains including electromagnetics, acoustics, and fluidics. Their AI-powered simulation technology offers orders of magnitude faster and equally accurate results compared to traditional numerical solvers, enabling real-time design exploration and inverse design capabilities. The company targets industries such as telecommunications, semiconductors, aerospace, construction, consumer electronics, and healthcare. KronosAI's platform integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, accelerating design cycles by 100x and enabling exploration of vast design spaces with confidence. Their technology supports scalable, multi-scale, and heterogeneous system simulations, aiming to make advanced physics simulation accessible and eco-friendly engineering practices more common.
What they do: AI-first multiphysics simulation platform for electromagnetics, acoustics, fluidics and photonics
Key capability: Agentic natural-language interface plus GPU-optimized solvers and AI surrogates
Speed/accuracy claim: Orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional solvers with comparable accuracy
Customers / markets: Telecommunications, semiconductors, aerospace, construction, consumer electronics, healthcare
Funding: Seed round announced Apr 1, 2025; investor listed: Plug and Play
High-cost, slow numerical simulation workflows in engineering and design across multiple physics domains.
2024
Technology, Information and Internet
Seed round announced on Apr 1, 2025; amount not publicly disclosed in provided evidence
“Plug and Play participated in Seed round”
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KronosAI is hiring a "Terence Tao" -- an exceptional researcher in applied mathematics to lead foundational work at the intersection of AI, physics, and large-scale scientific computing . Full-time preferred. Exceptional part-time arrangements will be considered for senior academics (e.g., applied mathematics professors at leading institutions).
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