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The companies said they will collaborate to enable virtual design, testing and validation through the use of “digital twins”—simulations of physical processes—for industries such as semiconductor, robotics, aerospace, automotive, energy, and healthcare.

Through the partnership, Synopsys “will further accelerate and optimize its broad portfolio of compute-intensive applications spanning chip design, physical verification, molecular simulations, electromagnetic analysis optical simulation and more,” according to a press release.

As AI technology trends toward autonomous vehicles and robots, Marcus and others believe the new frontier will be “world models,” or AI with a mental simulation of the real world.

The result: an interactive simulation that showed currents moving over a wing, with a slider allowing him to move the wing, change the currents and lift the plane into the air.

The scientists combined these experimental results with computer simulations of volcanic behavior.