Building a new world.

Misekai · Design & Research

What we do

Areas of Interest

IRA

CoreAI and Research Acceleration

Foundational and agentic work in accelerating and developing autonomous research in computational and physical sciences.

EAI

Entertainment and AI

Producing films, stories, and games for entertainment as well as developing better computer human interaction systems for immersive AI experiences.

HSC

Computing for Well Being

Understanding cognitive health and risks from emerging technologies, as well as building solutions to solve known problems in medicine, sociology, and biology.

Process

How we work.

01

Listen

We start with the world we want to live in. Research, conversation, doubt.

02

Sketch

Concepts before code. We test ideas with the cheapest possible artifact.

03

Build

Patient craft over fast iteration. Small teams, long arcs, daily practice.

04

Release

We ship when the work is true. Not before, and not by committee.

SZ

Steve Zeng

Founder

S. Zeng founded Misekai to build at the intersection of AI research, applied science, and interactive entertainment. He is a researcher with published work at the University of Iowa's Chemistry Department and Iowa Neuroscience Institute.

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