Hydrogen, AI, & the Future with Valentine Moroz of SoftinWay

Yeah.

What is that vision? Tell us a little bit about that.

And maybe we will differ depending on who you ask at Softenway.

And you asked about also soft.

So we do software.

We also develop hardware.

The company started actually initially to develop hardware, to help large power gen companies, aerospace companies to develop gas turbines and nuclear power plants, et cetera.

That's my dad's and a few of the folks' background.

We expanded into software because very large companies would build their business on hardware.

We're saying, how are you doing this faster than us? What is fundamentally different about their approach? And it was in fact our software tools.

that we build internally.

Taking that forward, what is our vision? There's so many different software companies out there that grow by buying other softwares.

There's so many hardware companies that do the same.

Frankly, our vision is neither.

We focus on what technology we believe will be important in the future across different sectors.

And we build software platform and continue to develop and build our software platform to be able to do that.

Ideally, being a one-stop shop, both for small startups and largest OEMs to go from idea to hardware extremely quickly.

I think in 2026, with all the news around different AI tools and LLMs, people underestimate just how hard it is to get the physics right the first time.

I'm so glad you said that.

Literally, the physics.

I was just sitting here thinking, I'm so sorry to interrupt you, but one of my biggest frustrations with AI and digital twins, and these are, by the way, in industry, I'm a stress engineer.

And so we're dealing with loads and forces and what will make this break, et cetera.

And even in very, I would say, experienced manufacturing the amount of errors that you can find just physics wise, where, you know, this was supposed to be an absolute value in the code and it ended up being like a negative or something.

And you can't figure out why these things are happening, that it is so important.

And I feel like if you even draw like an ask AI to make a picture of like an airplane or something now, it still really struggles.