1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering
TL;DR
AI models deliver simulation results in minutes instead of days, enabling engineers to explore thousands of designs rather than dozens per development cycle.
Jaguar Land Rover achieved a 30x speedup in aerodynamic design evaluation, going from 50 to 1,500 designs assessed daily.
Move 37 moments are happening in engineering, where AI proposes designs that experienced engineers initially dismiss as mistakes but turn out to outperform human intuition.
Chinese automakers develop cars in 18-24 months versus 40-60 months for Western OEMs, creating an existential competitive gap that AI adoption must address.
Foundation models for engineering are coming, but today Neural Concept trains customer-specific models on proprietary simulation and test data to capture domain know-how.
Summary
Jaguar Land Rover went from evaluating 50 aerodynamic designs per day to 1,500 after adopting Neural Concept's AI models, part of a broader transformation where specialist models learn "intuitive physics" to replace compute-intensive simulations.
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