Anima Anandkumar wants AI to understand physics beyond ChatGPT
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-02
Times of India profiles Anima Anandkumar, the Caltech professor and former NVIDIA research director, on her push to build AI that understands physics — moving beyond language-model paradigms toward physics-aware methods like neural operators for scientific computing.
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