# 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: 2026-09-10T13:02:00+07:00
- Author: PR Newswire

SINGAPORE, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DeepCtrls recently completed a new 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.

Over the past two months, **DeepCtrls has completed three consecutive financing 
rounds**. The strong investor momentum reflects a broader industry shift: **AI is
moving from the digital world into the physical world, while energy and computing
infrastructure are becoming critical foundations for the continued growth of AI.
Physical AI is emerging as a key technology pathway for transforming this infrastructure.**

**DeepCtrls is a pioneer and leader in the industrial application of Physical AI
for energy systems.** Since its founding, the company has focused on the deep integration
of AI and physical principles, building a proprietary technology platform powered
by its **PhyAI™ Physical AI Engine**. The technology enables AI to perceive, predict,
make decisions and optimize in real time within real-world physical environments,
extending AI capabilities from the digital world into complex physical systems.

After years of technology development and industrial deployment, DeepCtrls has successfully
advanced from technology validation to large-scale commercial adoption, serving 
more than **390 leading enterprise customers worldwide** and becoming one of the
earliest companies globally to achieve industrial closed-loop control powered by
Physical AI.

As demand for AI computing continues to accelerate, **DeepCtrls is expanding the
application of Physical AI from industrial energy systems into computing infrastructure**.
The company has launched solutions including intelligent liquid cooling control 
and computing-energy coordination, providing more intelligent and adaptive energy
infrastructure to support the continued growth of AI computing.

**CATL**, a global leader in the new energy industry and a long-standing strategic
customer of DeepCtrls, is further strengthening collaboration with the company through
this investment. The partnership will deepen exploration across AI and new-energy
applications, create more industrial scenarios for Physical AI deployment, and accelerate
the integration of technological innovation with real-world industrial needs.

The investment from Aramco Ventures reflects its conviction in DeepCtrl’s Physical
AI technology and supports the company’s continued development and international
growth.

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 the two foundational infrastructures
of AI development. By connecting computing and energy through Physical AI, DeepCtrls
is transforming energy systems from a constraint on AI growth into intelligent infrastructure
that enables the continued evolution of AI — ultimately building the AI brain for
the infrastructure of the AI era."

**About DeepCtrls**

DeepCtrls is pioneering the next evolution of AI — from Generative AI that creates
and reasons in the digital world to Physical AI that understands, optimizes and 
controls the physical world. Founded by a team with deep research roots at Tsinghua
University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, DeepCtrls has developed the
proprietary PhyAI™ Physical AI Engine, enabling autonomous optimization and closed-
loop control for complex energy and computing infrastructure.

Recognized within the global AI ecosystem, DeepCtrls has been accepted into the 
NVIDIA Inception Program, supporting its continued innovation in applying AI to 
real-world industrial systems. Backed by leading investors including Tencent, Sequoia
China, Source Code Capital and Forebright Capital, DeepCtrls serves more than 390
enterprise customers worldwide, including 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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