# Luminary

> Luminary builds a platform that turns high-fidelity physics simulations into reusable AI models, so engineering teams can test many design choices quickly and reserve slower simulation for validation. Its SHIFT models span vehicle aerodynamics, aircraft wings, crash response and other physical systems.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Mateo, United States
- **Founders:** Jason Lango (Co-founder and former CEO), Juan J. Alonso (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Physics AI Factory, SHIFT-SUV, SHIFT-Wing, Luminary Private Cloud, SHIFT-Crash
- **Notable:** Founded in 2019 and emerged from stealth in March 2024., Named the fastest solver in its first AutoCFD4 workshop participation, according to its published benchmark report., Released SHIFT-SUV with Honda and NVIDIA in April 2025.

## Products & services

- **Physics AI Factory** — Platform for generating or ingesting physics data, training and validating models, deploying inference and governing model versions.
- **SHIFT-SUV** — Open-source aerodynamic model and dataset for SUV design, developed with Honda and NVIDIA and demonstrated inside Blender.
- **SHIFT-Wing** — Transonic wing aerodynamic model and dataset developed with Otto Aviation using NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo; noncommercial open access with commercial licensing.
- **Luminary Private Cloud** — On-premises platform deployment for restricted, air-gapped aerospace and defense work.
- **SHIFT-Crash** — Model for full-vehicle frontal crash predictions trained on 5,000 simulations of a 2010 Toyota Yaris reference vehicle.
- **SHIFT-Truck** — Aerodynamic model for pickup-truck shapes trained using approximately 1,000 simulated design points.

## Achievements

- Founded in 2019 and emerged from stealth in March 2024.
- Named the fastest solver in its first AutoCFD4 workshop participation, according to its published benchmark report.
- Released SHIFT-SUV with Honda and NVIDIA in April 2025.
- Released SHIFT-Wing with Otto Aviation in July 2025.
- Reported 5,000 full-vehicle crash simulations behind SHIFT-Crash in April 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Introduced SHIFT-Truck for pickup aerodynamics and published its training and evaluation details.
- **2026-08** — Published work on out-of-distribution detection and uncertainty quantification for large physics models.
- **2026-04** — Launched SHIFT-Crash for full-vehicle frontal crash prediction.
- **2026-02** — Introduced Luminary Private Cloud for secure and air-gapped deployments.

## Links

- Website: https://luminary.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminarycloud
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/luminaryphysics
- GitHub: https://github.com/luminarycloud
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@luminaryphysics

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Last updated: 2026-09-29