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

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. 

SOURCE DeepCtrls