Is NOVA (Zenithon) state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 20, 2026; no independent results yet.
Zenithon calls NOVA the first world model for extreme physics: a single transformer pretrained on plasma and fluid physics systems that predicts how complex physical systems evolve and respond to control inputs, in seconds on a single GPU (lab claim). Not an LLM.
The details so far
- Lab
- Zenithon
- Announced
- Oct 20, 2026
- API
- Not yet
- Open weights
- Unknown
- Lab
- Zenithon, London startup
- Focus
- World model for extreme physics (plasma physics, fluid dynamics and more), trained on data from multiple simulation codes
- First showcase
- Fusion energy: magnetic, magneto-inertial and inertial fusion
- Availability
- Not stated
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: the first world model for extreme physics; predicts how complex physical systems evolve and respond to control inputs in seconds on a single GPU.
Lab claim: adapts to new operating regimes with a few dozen simulations, or none in the tokamak example.
Sources
LABZenithon announcement on Xx.com/ZenithonAIx/status/2112470725508452779 · Oct 20, 2026Tracking ends Jan 18, 2027 unless the API or weights become available.