Making ASI for the Real World

We’re building new AI architectures that break neural scaling laws—making embodied and generative intelligence fast, efficient, and explainable.

Our Vision

Scale-is-all-you-need doesn’t scale

Solution

We see a future where advanced intelligence is seamlessly integrated into daily life—powering robotics, autonomous vehicles, generative media, and scientific discovery. But today’s transformer-based models are power-hungry, data-intensive, and hard to control—limiting their ability to scale into real-world, embodied intelligence.

Scaling today’s models requires power-plant-level energy, hundreds of millions of dollars, and months of training. Recent results now cast doubt on whether scaling laws will continue to hold at all.

We need a new path to intelligence.

We’re building next-generation frontier AI built on new mathematical principles discovered in neuroscience and geometric deep learning. These structures unlock orders of magnitude better scaling than the transformer-based architectures and enable a future of embodied intelligence.

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Our Vision

We see a future where advanced intelligence is seamlessly integrated into daily life—powering robotics, autonomous vehicles, generative media, and scientific discovery. But today’s transformer-based models are power-hungry, data-intensive, and hard to control—limiting their ability to scale into real-world, embodied intelligence.

Scale-is-all-you-need doesn’t scale

Scaling today’s models requires power-plant-level energy, hundreds of millions of dollars, and months of training. Recent results now cast doubt on whether scaling laws will continue to hold at all.We need a new path to intelligence.

Solution

We’re building next-generation frontier AI built on new mathematical principles discovered in neuroscience and geometric deep learning. These structures unlock orders of magnitude better scaling than the transformer-based architectures and enable a future of embodied intelligence.

New structures for perception and cognition

Natural Intelligence

Brains have evolved mathematical primitives for representing the world—efficiently discovering, representing, and reasoning about its underlying structures.

World Models

Structured world models exhibit strong generalization far out of their training distributions, forming a robust foundation for perception, generation, planning, semantic understanding, and reasoning.

We’re building it

New Theory is building structured, general-purpose architectures for multi-modal world models with compositional generalization, achieving SOTA when trained with a tiny fraction of the data and compute.

TEAM + VALUES
Backed by Khosla Ventures and led by Christian Shewmake (Redwood Center, UC Berkeley) and serial founder/product lead Colin O’Donnell, we are a team of mathematicians, neuroscientists, engineers, and geometric deep learning researchers from UC Berkeley, UCSB, and the University of Amsterdam. We’re joined by scientific advisors Nina Miolane, Bruno Olshausen, and Erik Bekkers.
We value curiosity, deep theory, bold thinking, and rapid execution. We’re looking for the best and brightest to join us.
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