Normal Computing Corporation

Normal Computing Corporation is an AI infrastructure company working on physics-based and thermodynamic computing, developing both software and hardware in partnership with the largest semiconductor design and manufacturing institutions. The firm's stated objective is a multi-decade effort to reinvent how computing works by aligning hardware design with the intrinsic properties of physical systems, addressing fundamental constraints in AI infrastructure.

Two products anchor the work. Normal EDA is an AI-accelerated co-design platform for silicon engineering teams. Normal ASICs are physics-based application-specific integrated circuits which the company says can deliver up to 1,000x more intelligence per unit of energy through thermodynamic computing. Relevant technical areas include thermodynamic computing, probabilistic and quantum AI, machine learning frameworks, electronic design automation, ASIC design and physics-based hardware design.

The company was founded by former members of Google Brain and Google X who worked on AI for the physical world, and its team is drawn from organisations including Google Brain, Google X, Meta, Palantir, IBM Research, UC Berkeley, NVIDIA and Intel. It operates from four offices, in New York City, San Francisco, London and Copenhagen, spanning the United States and Europe.