Anthropic FDE team partners with Mazda to optimize car nose aerodynamics using Astra in Codex
colintjarvis · x · 2026-11-04
Anthropic's Forward Deployed Engineer team announced a new partnership with Mazda, showing how LLMs can tackle frontier engineering problems.
- Working alongside Mazda's aerodynamics engineers, FDEs used Astra in Codex to build and simulate dozens of variations on a car's nose design
- The team sees broad potential for LLM-driven optimization in manufacturing, supply chains, and beyond, and is soliciting partners with similar problems
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