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For decades, physics has been one of the biggest constraints on how physical products get designed - not because engineers don't trust it, but because it's been too slow and too expensive to use continuously. Teams make hundreds of design decisions before they ever see high-fidelity physics; by the time the simulation arrives, the design is largely locked.\nWe change that. Our Foundation Model for Physics makes deterministic physical reasoning available while a design is still evolving, so engineers can make better decisions before the cost of change compounds. Unlike general-purpose AI, our model learns physical behavior from first principles - not from human-generated text or images.\nToday, Vinci is deployed on production engineering programs at leading semiconductor companies - the hardest physics problems in modern electronics. Semiconductors are not the limit. 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