From the desk of Apex research + engineering
Two-minute read; links to the underlying papers, model cards and case studies inline.
01 · Research progress
Year-ahead research priorities: long-horizon stability past 10⁶ steps, cross-modal transfer between CFD and RTL, refusal-corpus engineering for autonomous labs. Specific projects named.
02 · Customer wins
Customer-portfolio target for the year: ten new Fortune-500 customers, three new sovereign-air-gapped deployments, two national-lab consortium engagements.
03 · Model-card diffs
Roadmap published at /simos#roadmap. Next major release expected Q3.
04 · An open question
What would convince your team to switch from your incumbent CAE / EDA / discovery stack to Aether in 2026? Reply.
05 · What we read
- (1) The year-ahead memo — A. Singh.
- (2) Founder's notes on what we won't build — internal but quoted.
- (3) Building a frontier lab vs building a model — Holst.