Former Bicester Motion resident PhysicsX’s expansion continues to hit headlines, with a new $300m investment bringing the AI specialist’s valuation to $2.4b.
Founded and led by Robin Tuluie, whose ingenuity led Renault to back-to-back Formula 1 world titles, the company first laid down roots at Bicester Motion in a small office inside the Station Armoury, Building 123, in 2021.
Around 18 months later the engineering and tech experts expanded to require more space and moved into the Gas Defence Centre, Building 143, in 2023 and the team only continued to grow. The headcount of the now-London and New York-based company exceeds 300, with the new investment expected to ‘accelerate its global growth’.
PhysicsX is now one of the UK’s biggest exponents of artificial intelligence, using it to underpin its world-leading team and engineering platform, and in 2025 was valued at $1bn.
"High-fidelity physics simulation has always been powerful, but it has also been slow, costly, and the preserve of a small group of specialists. Physics AI changes that in every dimension,” Robin says. “It makes high-fidelity simulation dramatically more efficient, augments and improves on pure simulation results with ingestion of real-world data into our Large Physics Models, and opens it to applications that were never practical before.
“We believe in the democratisation of this technology to broad technical profiles across an industrial organisation — engineers, designers, and operators who previously couldn't run these analyses themselves. As that capability spreads, its utility compounds across the business. That’s the change we’re driving."