Alpine signs new deal with Apex Ultra

French Formula One team Alpine has announced a new multi-year partnership with AI lab Apex Ultra who has joined the team as their Official AI for Engineering Partner. Alpine will use Apex Ultra’s Engineering Superintelligence (ESI) technology to help close the gap between simulation and on-track performance, weigh manufacturability alongside performance, and retain the full history of every development decision.

Steve Nielsen, Managing Director, BWT Alpine Formula One Team, commented,

“Formula One has always been won by the teams that saw the next decisive technology coming, committed to it early, and learned to put it to work best. Aerodynamics drove competitive advantage in the last three decades. The next will be defined by intelligence, by how fast a team can turn everything it learns into a faster car. Bringing Apex Ultra into Enstone is that commitment. We are not adding a tool to the factory. We are changing how the team learns and adapts.”

Denis Mars, Co-founder, Apex Ultra, added,

“Formula One is the AlphaGo arena for engineering: the best engineers on the planet, competing in public, with a feedback loop measured in weeks rather than years. There is no better place to learn what it means for an intelligence to engineer, and no better partner than a team that has chosen to learn faster than everyone else. This is the first time our work towards ESI leaves our lab. We wanted the first place it went to be the hardest.”