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Zongfu Yu

Works on the physics, the computation, and the company-building behind first-principles simulation at scale.

Zongfu leads Flexcompute. He holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford, and writes about what becomes possible when first-principles physics is scaled by computation.

Essay The Uncomputed World

Why Simulate the World

When thinking and building become cheap, proof from the real world becomes the slowest step in progress. A second world, built from the laws of physics, makes proving fast: machines test designs there and build only the winners.

Zongfu Yu
Essay The Uncomputed World

Simulating the World

Language predicts a storm without resolving a single molecule. First-principles simulation resolves every molecule but cannot reach a single living cell. The way to simulate the world is a new tokenization of physics.

Zongfu Yu
Essay The Uncomputed World

A Physics Company

The laws of physics have been known for a century. What those laws do, at scale, has never been computed — and that gap is where an entire industry is still waiting to be built.

Zongfu Yu