Artificial Atlas

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Anima Anandkumar

Anima Anandkumar

Researcher

Caltech's Bren Professor and former Nvidia research director, where her group introduced neural operators and FourCastNet. Co-founded Accelerated Understanding, which launched in August 2026 with a physics model built on those operators.

Known for Neural operators (FNO); FourCastNet

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  1. 2026 – now
    Accelerated Understanding, Co-founder
    Physics AI
    Sources AI founders walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus. Now they’re building physics AI to model the universe - Tech Startups 2026-08-25
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    Caltech, Bren Professor of Computing
    Physics AI
    Sources AI founders walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus. Now they’re building physics AI to model the universe - Tech Startups 2026-08-25