
Applied Computing, a startup based in London, has secured $20 million in Series A funding led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures. The company is developing Orbital, an AI model for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries that integrates sensor data with physics and chemistry to predict facility states and simulate operational changes. This innovation aims to enhance decision-making speed, reducing analysis time from days to seconds. With this funding, Applied Computing plans to expand internationally and strengthen its research and engineering teams.
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