# Beyond Generative AI: CATL and Aramco Ventures Bet on DeepCtrls to Power AI's Second Act in the Physical World

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- Published: 2026-09-15T21:26:00+07:00
- Author: PR Newswire

SINGAPORE, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DeepCtrls has completed its Series B+ financing
round, led by **CATL**, with strategic investment from **Aramco Ventures**, alongside
participation from **Taiping Innovation Investment, GF Xinde Investment Management
and Fosun Capital**. Existing investors, including **Source Code Capital and Forebright
Capital**, also increased their investments.

**The financing reflects growing global confidence in a major industry shift: AI
is moving beyond the digital world into the physical world, and Physical AI is emerging
as a key technology pathway for transforming energy and computing infrastructure.**

Founded in 2018, DeepCtrls has developed its proprietary **PhyAI™ Physical AI Engine**,
integrating AI with physical principles to enable real-time perception, prediction,
optimization and closed-loop control of complex physical systems.

After years of technology development and industrial deployment, DeepCtrls has advanced
from technology validation to large-scale commercial adoption, serving **hundreds
of enterprise customers worldwide** across semiconductor, new energy, advanced manufacturing
and data center industries. The company is extending Physical AI from industrial
energy systems into AI infrastructure through solutions including intelligent liquid
cooling and computing-energy coordination.

**CATL**, a global leader in new energy and a long-standing strategic customer of
DeepCtrls, is further strengthening collaboration with the company through this 
investment. **Aramco Ventures’ strategic investment** reflects growing international
recognition of DeepCtrls’ Physical AI technology and supports its continued global
expansion.

**Li Hui, Founder and CEO of DeepCtrls, said:**

"The next phase of AI will be defined by the ability to control complex systems 
in the real world. Energy and computing are foundational infrastructures of AI development.
By connecting computing and energy through Physical AI, DeepCtrls aims to build 
the intelligent control layer for the infrastructure of the AI era."

**About DeepCtrls**

DeepCtrls is pioneering the evolution from **Generative AI to Physical AI** — enabling
AI to understand, optimize and control the physical world. Founded by a team with
research roots at **Tsinghua University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory**,
DeepCtrls developed the **PhyAI™ Physical AI Engine** for autonomous optimization
and control of energy and computing infrastructure. The company has been accepted
into the **NVIDIA Inception Program** and is backed by investors including **Tencent,
Sequoia China, Source Code Capital and Forebright Capital**. Its customers include**
Tencent, ByteDance, NVIDIA, TSMC, LG and PTT**, with deployments across Asia, the
Middle East, Europe and North America.

For more information, visit **[http://www.deepctrls.com/en](http://www.deepctrls.com/en)**

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