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Jul 17, 2026

Feyer joins SPRIND's Next Frontier AI Challenge

Feyer has been selected for SPRIND's Next Frontier AI Challenge, a €125M initiative to build Europe's next generation of Frontier AI Labs.

The founders of Feyer: Jonathan Klimesch, Sören Arlt, and Prof. Mario Krenn.
The Feyer founding team: Jonathan Klimesch (CEO), Sören Arlt (CTO) and Prof. Mario Krenn (Scientific Director). Photo: © SPRIND / Felix Adler

We are proud to share that Feyer has been selected to join SPRIND's Next Frontier AI Challenge.

SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, launched the Next Frontier AI Challenge with €125 million in non-dilutive funding to create major European Frontier AI labs able to compete at the global frontier. Having competed against more than 500 European teams, Feyer has been selected as one of the final 10.

The challenge is explicitly looking for the leap to the next S-curve of AI: fundamentally new architectures, training paradigms, and modalities. Feyer's neural explorers, tightly fused with differentiable physics simulators, promise such a new S-curve both in model architecture and in the technologies our explorers invent.

With SPRIND's backing we will expand our compute, scale our simulation and search space infrastructure, and grow the team to move automated physical invention from research into an operating European frontier lab.

We are hiring across simulation, search space engineering, deep learning, and data engineering. If you want to help machines invent the next generation of hardware, we would love to hear from you at careers@feyer.ai.

- Jonathan, Sören & Mario