Why we’re building Laplace
Manifesto
AI has changed what we can do in a day.
We can write emails, create presentations, order food, and build software simply by describing what we want.
But what will it take to change what we can do for the world?
Can we build homes faster for people who need them? Use robots to harvest crops and package food? Get food and medicine where they are needed? Protect communities from floods and fires? Prevent more disease and reduce the suffering caused by war?
These are the problems that made us want to build Laplace.
Part of the answer is Physical AI: machines that sense, decide, and act in the real world.
And Physical AI needs realities to learn from.
Millions of experiences. Different environments, changing conditions, unexpected failures. Situations that can be too dangerous, too expensive, or simply impossible to reproduce in real life.
Simulation gives us a way to create those realities.
But creating them at scale takes scientific knowledge, engineering skill, specialized tools, and enormous computing power. Access to those capabilities still determines who gets to turn an idea into something real.
Humanity’s hardest problems deserve more minds working on them.
Today, we are launching Laplace.
Laplace is the world’s first large-scale simulation engine for Physical AI.
We automate the setup of proven physics simulators, generate realistic scenarios, and run them at massive scale, turning decades of science into realities intelligent machines can learn from.
Our mission is to put scientific expertise, engineering tools, and vast computing power within reach of anyone who wants to help solve the world’s toughest problems.
To give scientists and engineers greater capacity to explore. To help small teams attempt work that once required enormous resources. To give someone with a promising idea a way to begin.
There are people everywhere who understand a problem because they live with it. People with ideas worth testing. People willing to dedicate their lives to making things better.
We believe they should have the means to contribute.
We cannot wait for every team to build its own simulations internally before it can begin testing solutions.
We cannot wait for another disaster before we explore how to prepare, protect, and respond.
And the people who need the results cannot wait either.
Children need schools today. Families need safe homes today. Food and medicine need to reach the right places today.
Every delay in our ability to test a solution is a delay in our ability to put it to work.
That is why we are opening access to the tools, expertise, and computing power to create these realities. So more people can start now. So more ideas can be tested. So we can bring solutions into the world sooner.
AI has given us new power to create.
Now let’s put that power to work on the problems humanity needs us to solve.