Unlocking the Future of Intelligence with Geometric Deep Learning

We are building fundamentally new architectures that break neural scaling laws, making AI fast, efficient, and explainable.

Our Vision

Scale-is-all-you-need doesn’t scale

Solution

We see a future with AGI integrated into everyday life, unlocking ubiquitous robotics, autonomous vehicles, generative multimodal media, and fundamental scientific advancements. However, today’s data and power-hungry transformer-based AI models won’t get us there.

A single 100 word ChatGPT response consumes a bottle of water in cooling. Scaling these models requires power plants of energy, hundreds of millions of dollars, and months of training. Now, recent results cast doubt on whether scaling laws will continue to hold at all.

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

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Our Vision

We see a future with AGI integrated into everyday life, unlocking ubiquitous robotics, autonomous vehicles, generative multimodal media, and fundamental scientific advancements. However, today’s data and power-hungry transformer-based AI models won’t get us there.

Scale-is-all-you-need doesn’t scale

A single 100 word ChatGPT response consumes a bottle of water in cooling. Scaling these models requires power plants of energy, hundreds of millions of dollars, and months of training. Now, recent results cast doubt on whether scaling laws will continue to hold at all.

Solution

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

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 state of the art, general-purpose architectures for multi-modal world models trained with a fraction of the data and compute.

TEAM + VALUES
Led by CEO Christian Shewmake of the Redwood Center at UC Berkeley and serial founder/product lead Colin O’Donnell, We are a team of mathematicians, neuroscientists, and geometric deep learning researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Amsterdam. We are joined by scientific advisors Nina ​Miolane, Bruno Olshausen, and Erik Bekkers.
We value curiosity, deep theory, creative leaps, and rapid execution. We’re looking for the best and brightest to join us as we grow.
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