CES 2025: Neural Concept 3D AI platform accelerates product innovation with NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint

• Neural Concept integrates with NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated solver to simulate, design and optimize complex multi-physics product characteristics at massive scale
• Neural Concept’s platform was used for real-time computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and the CAE design of the ‘fastest sailboat in history’, expected to smash world speed records in 2025  

Las Vegas, 6 January 2024 at 8.30pm PT –  Neural Concept, the leading end-to-end 3D AI platform for engineering intelligence, today announced it is using the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins to reshape product innovation. Today’s news follows the announcement earlier this year that Neural Concept has integrated its platform with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins.

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Neural Concept’s platform, now featuring NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint, has enabled the design of a radical new hydrofoil for the SP80 sailboat - anticipated to break all current world speed records later this year. Over 70+ OEMs and Tier 1s rely on Neural Concept’s 3D AI platform to optimise and accelerate their product development, simulation and design. The Neural Concept platform enables product engineering teams to significantly improve complex multi-physics product characteristics in real -time using massively scalable simulations. Neural Concept’s OEM and Tier 1 customers have benefited from lower development costs,; decreased energy requirements, optimized product innovation and significantly faster time to market. The integration of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint into the Neural Concept platform further accelerates the benefits of deploying Neural Concept within the OEM engineering domain.  

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Neural Concept’s AI-driven intelligent engineering platform – as used by SP80 – allows for real-time CAE digital-twin simulations thanks to GPU acceleration with CUDA-X libraries, and the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse APIs, achieving faster iteration cycles through enhanced decision-making efficiency, and improved performance—all within a unified, real-time virtual environment.SP80 is a team of engineers and students on a mission to build a racing sailboat that is more than 20% faster than the current sailboat world speed record of 65.45 knots (121 km per hour), set by Paul Larsen’s Vestas Sailrocket II in 2012. Larsen’s record has remained unbeaten for over a decade due to an intractable hydrodynamics phenomenon called ‘cavitation.’ Cavitation occurs at speeds of over 50 knots per hour, when water around a conventional sailboat’s hydrofoil turns from a liquid state to vapour, creating instability which prevents any further acceleration. Using the Neural Concept platform to perform 30,000 CFD simulations in under two hours and the platform’s integrated CAE tools, the SP80 team designed a radically new hydrofoil that leverages ‘ventilation.’ Instead of a conventional ‘tear drop' hydrofoil design, the SP80 hydrofoil is wedge-shaped. This novel design creates an air bubble around the low-pressure side of the hydrofoil, delivering in a 50% increase in performance.
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SP80’s breakthrough hydrofoil design prevents instability from cavitation, allowing a sailboat to significantly exceed the current speed record of 65 knots (121 km per hour) for the first time ever. Later this year, the SP80 team will attempt to break the sailboat world speed record in a sailboat featuring the new hydrofoil that is expected to reach speeds in excess of 80 knots (150 km per hour). Pierre Baqué, CEO and Co-founder of Neural Concept said, “CES is the world’s premier event to see the latest in product innovation. But in this age of accelerated AI, product development must keep up with the pace of change if it is to help solve intractable engineering problems and global challenges. Neural Concept’s end-to-end 3D AI platform - now integrated with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins - is reshaping product innovation, using the power of 3D generative AI and scalable compute to bring more sustainable, streamlined and safer products to market in record speed. SP80’s mission to challenge long-standing engineering limits and push innovation to its racing edge is truly inspiring – a symbol of what’s possible for forward-thinking OEMs who put ‘Engineering Intelligence’ at their core.” Neural Concept is an official CES exhibitor with a presence on the swisstech Pavilion and dedicated CES meeting rooms at The Venetian.

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The company will be demonstrating forthcoming platform advancements, and presenting automotive, consumer electronics and microelectronics case studies to invited customers and attendees. In partnership with OPmobility, a global leader in sustainable mobility and a trusted technology partner to OEMs, Neural Concept will unveil a series of AI-driven automotive innovations at the OPmobility booth (West Hall) during CES 2025 in Las Vegas (7–10 January).To request a demonstration meeting at CES, please contact Ariane Grandjean ariane.grandjean@neuralconcept.com‍

Founded in 2018, Neural Concept provides a leading end-to-end platform which places AI at the centre of the product development process to revolutionize the way engineers conceptualize, design and validate products. Neural Concept’s flagship technology empowers engineering teams with 3D generative engineering, predictive analysis, and collaborative AI workflows, helping world- class engineering teams reduce development times by up to 75%, improve product characteristics including efficiency, safety, speed, and aerodynamics, and empower engineers to 10x accelerate their work. The company works with 40% of the largest European and Asian OEMs and 25% of the world’s top 100 tier-1 suppliers.
Neural Concept was spun-out from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and is backed by world-renowned investors including Forestay Capital and the D. E. Shaw group. For more information, visit https://www.neuralconcept.com‍

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