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26 Aug 2026, 11:15 PM	Latent Space	6.5	🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar discusses her work building AI models for physical systems like weather and fusion, where standard transformer scaling fails because datasets are small (tens of thousands of examples) and required context lengths reach hundreds of billions to a trillion tokens. Her team built FourCastNet, an open-source weather model competitive with physics-based simulations that runs on consumer-grade GPUs, and she pioneered Neural Operators as a technique that embeds mathematical structure and inductive biases rather than relying on raw scale. Why: If you're building AI for anything involving continuous physical systems—fluid dynamics, heat flow, climate, industrial simulation—this signals that the bitter lesson does not apply and you should invest in domain-specific architecture (Neural Operators) rather than throwing more tokens and compute at transformers. For SaaS founders in climate, energy, or industrial verticals, FourCastNet being open-source and runnable on consumer GPUs lowers the barrier to building weather-dependent products without supercomputing budgets. scientific-ai neural-operators weather-modeling open-source physics-simulation

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26 Aug 2026, 11:15 PM

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🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing

Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar discusses her work building AI models for physical systems like weather and fusion, where standard transformer scaling fails because datasets are small (tens of thousands of examples) and required context lengths reach hundreds of billions to a trillion tokens. Her team built FourCastNet, an open-source weather model competitive with physics-based simulations that runs on consumer-grade GPUs, and she pioneered Neural Operators as a technique that embeds mathematical structure and inductive biases rather than relying on raw scale.

Why: If you're building AI for anything involving continuous physical systems—fluid dynamics, heat flow, climate, industrial simulation—this signals that the bitter lesson does not apply and you should invest in domain-specific architecture (Neural Operators) rather than throwing more tokens and compute at transformers. For SaaS founders in climate, energy, or industrial verticals, FourCastNet being open-source and runnable on consumer GPUs lowers the barrier to building weather-dependent products without supercomputing budgets.