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A junior partner at electronic trading firm G-Research left for an AI lab. 15 hours ago Much fuss has been made of the quant researchers and traders leaving for major AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, but there are plenty of younger, growing AI labs providing an equally enticing exit opportunity. One such lab is BeyondMath, which provides the first foundational AI model "trained on the fundamental laws of physics." It just hired a junior partner at one of the UK's most prominent electronic trading firms. Jeremy Mardon joined BeyondMath as a senior AI researcher after a decade working at G-Research. He worked as a senior machine learning quant, and was promoted to associate partner at the start of last year. He joined BeyondMath shortly after the arrival of its head of AI, Carlo Fisicaro, who was previously CTO of biotech firm Peptone. BeyondMath was founded by ex-eBay directors Darren Garvey and Alan Patterson, the latter of which also worked on building Barclays' FX trading platform earlier in his career. Mardon was a theoretical physicist prior to joining G-Research, so his new gig is a bit of a comeback. He studied at Oxford, completed a theoretical particle physics PhD at Berkeley, before spending five years as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford. There, his focus was on the detection and mathematical modelling of dark matter. Maybe quants leaving for smaller labs will become the trend. Hudson River Trading's head of AI, Iain Dunning, told Bloomberg in June that AI labs pose less of a threat to them in the talent market because they've "become big tech" and shifted their culture as a result of their massive headcount growth. BeyondMath is a different story; when it raised its seed funding round earlier this year, it had just 16 people. G-Research and BeyondMath did not respond to a request for comment. Have a confidential story, tip, or comment you'd like to share? Contact: WhatsApp: http://wa.me/442079977910 (+44 20 7997 7910), Telegram: @AlexMcMurray, Signal: @AlexMcMurrayEFC.88 Click here to fill in our anonymous form, or email [email protected]. Bear with us if you leave a comment at the bottom of this article: comments are moderated intermittently by human beings. Sometimes these humans might be asleep, or away from their desks, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You must take sole responsibility for comments you post on this site. We will take reasonable steps to weed out anything that we consider to be offensive or inappropriate. The essential daily roundup of news and analysis read by everyone from senior bankers and traders to new recruits. Boost your career. Find thousands of job opportunities by signing up to eFinancialCareers today.

BeyondMath completes $18.5m Seed round to scale world's largest foundational physics AI model. Tony Quested Business Weekly 25 Feb 2026 Cambridge-born DeepTech company BeyondMath, which has developed a first-of-its-kind generative physics model, has closed a $10 million Seed round extension led by Cambridge Innovation Capital, alongside existing investors including UP.Partners, Insight Partners, and InMotion Ventures. This extension wraps up the Seed round at a huge total of $18.5m. Engineering and industrial companies are struggling to design increasingly complex systems faster and more sustainably while using legacy simulation tools that cannot cope with modern hardware and AI-driven workflows. BeyondMath takes a fundamentally new approach with a foundational AI model trained directly on first-principles physics. This enables engineering-grade simulations to be created in minutes rather than hours or days, delivering results up to 1000x faster than traditional supercomputing methods. A key example of this impact is STRATA, a $19m, three-year project with Honeywell, where BeyondMath enables the simulation of thousands of iterations for complex aircraft components in seconds rather than days. By optimising internal fluid paths and thermal performance, this partnership accelerates the delivery of lighter, more efficient aerospace parts that are projected to deliver billions of dollars in fuel efficiency savings while significantly reducing global aviation emissions. Founded in 2022 in Cambridge by AI industry veterans Alan Patterson and Darren Garvey, and now headquartered in London, BeyondMath has developed the world's largest foundational physics model, which is capable of simulating complex physical phenomena, from aerodynamics to thermal management. Customers include major automotive, aerospace and electronics manufacturers, while it has established partnerships with NVIDIA and AWS. Its model has potential applications across industries such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, data centre design and semiconductor manufacturing. For example, in automotive engineering - where BeyondMath works with an F1 team - the platform supports real-time testing of thousands of design combinations to identify optimisations in aerodynamics and thermal management. The latest funding will be used to scale up the commercial deployment of BeyondMath's generative physics technology and increase its research capacity. The team expects to double its headcount this year and expand its customer base across Europe, the US and Japan. Alan Patterson, CEO of BeyondMath, said: "Engineering teams require ever-faster, more flexible simulation, but do not have the technology to deliver on these demands. Generative physics introduces a fundamentally new approach to engineering, unlocking innovation across fields ranging from aerospace and automotive to data-centre design. We now have the capital and investor support to accelerate our research roadmap and scale commercial adoption. This could be the ChatGPT moment for physics." Edward Inns, a tech investment principal at Cambridge Innovation Capital, adds: "BeyondMath is tackling one of the hardest and most valuable problems in engineering. By combining first-principles physics with modern AI, the team has built a platform that can redefine how complex systems are designed across multiple industries. We look forward to supporting Alan, Darren and the team as they continue to scale."