Berkeley startup takes a manufacturing-first approach as AI data centers and fusion turn to superconducting power; See them at the Plug and Play Silicon Valley November Summit

Since 1911, scientists have discovered thousands of superconductors, materials that carry electricity with zero resistance. Only a handful have ever been made into commercial wire. SuperMatics, a Berkeley company building AI exclusively for superconductors, is targeting that gap and will present its approach on November 5 at the Plug and Play Silicon Valley November Summit in Sunnyvale, California.

The gap is getting expensive. The International Energy Agency expects data center electricity use to more than double by 2030, and Microsoft is exploring superconducting power delivery for data centers. Fusion developers build magnets from high-temperature superconducting tape, which remains costly and scarce.

Records alone will not close it. In 2026, University of Houston researchers raised the ambient-pressure superconductivity record for the first time since 1993, but for power and magnets, a material matters only if it can become tough, affordable wire. Because standard simulations cannot reliably predict high-temperature superconductivity at everyday pressures, most teams still rely on trial and error.

SuperMatics designs for manufacturing from the start. Its multimodal foundation models and AI agents, built on physics including the Modulated Electron Lattice (MEL) framework, predict material properties, write the synthesis recipe, and simulate the finished wire or device. Candidates are made and tested with researchers at UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech, and every result, failures included, retrains the models.

“Records make headlines, but wires change industries,” said Davis Rens, Co-founder of SuperMatics and a former quantum engineer at Rigetti Computing. “The next breakthrough is not the highest temperature on paper. It is the superconductor someone can actually make, and that is what our AI is built to find.”

SuperMatics is in talks with global materials and technology companies on joint programs for existing high-temperature superconductors while building its own new materials pipeline. CEO Charlie Moon leads the company with co-founder Dr. Jaehwahn Kim, Hyunsung T&C’s CTO and a 25-year superconductivity veteran.

About SuperMatics

SuperMatics, Inc. is a Berkeley, California company using physics-driven AI to discover and commercialize manufacturable superconductors for AI infrastructure, energy and quantum computing. Learn more at supermatics.io.

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