Luminary Cloud expands physics AI toolkit with defense-focused models
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Nick Wakeman
The company designed its new SHIFT models to address collaborative combat aircraft, autonomous submarines, and fluid dynamics challenges.
Luminary Cloud has released three new artificial intelligence models focused on different defense technology development needs.
The company has developed what it calls physics AI, which can speed work on complex engineering problems such as aerodynamics, structural analysis, electromagnetics, and heat transfer.
In October, Luminary signed a partnership with Northrop Grumman to work on rocket nozzle designs.
With Monday’s announcement, Luminary has released three more AI models under its SHIFT brand name:
- SHIFT Collaborative Combat Air to help optimize the aerodynamic performance of drone prototypes intended to fly alongside crewed fighter jets.
- SHIFT Submarine will focus on hydrodynamic efficiency and performance of autonomous vessels including battery capacity, which can limit the length and duration of missions.
- SHIFT Pump, which is a model to optimize a new design for pumps including pressure, flow, and efficiency.
“To outpace adversaries, physics AI is not optional -- it is a mission-critical necessity. Platforms like Luminary are essential for compressing design timelines and securing the technological edge,” said Juan Alonso, chief technology officer at Luminary.
The new models expand upon the previously released SHIFT-SUV and SHIFT-Wing models for automotive and aerospace applications. SHIFT is a family of models that provide access to both high-quality datasets and pretrained models for a variety of applications and industries.