From S2, EP6 - Dr. Prith Banerjee - ANSYS CTO · · DrNeilAshton
“We built a platform, SimAI, which allows a customer to take their problems and designs, use our tools like Fluent or ANSYS Mechanical, train AI models on your problem, and then the 100th design that might have taken 100 hours will run in a minute — that's the value proposition.”
On , Prithviraj Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at ANSYS Inc, spoke about product during S2, EP6 - Dr. Prith Banerjee - ANSYS CTO on DrNeilAshton.
Prithviraj Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at Ansys, discussed the company's approach to simulation and artificial intelligence in a December 2024 podcast. He described Ansys as a leading modeling and simulation company that uses physics-based methods such as finite element and finite volume techniques. Banerjee stated that his role involves examining the future of simulation and technologies like AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing to drive future products. He noted that a key challenge is balancing accuracy and speed in simulation tools. Banerjee outlined Ansys's development of a platform called SimAI, which allows customers to train AI models on their own design problems, reducing simulation time for later designs. He also described a longer-term vision for foundational AI models for physics, analogous to large language models, that would be trained by Ansys on a broad set of physical data. Banerjee acknowledged that building such models would require access to customer data and discussed potential business models involving anonymized data sharing with compensation. He also mentioned that quantum computing could accelerate simulation within a decadeasi.