London's Applied Computing raises a $20M Series A led by KBR and Databricks Ventures to deploy its physics-based AI model in global oil refineries.

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

The London startup says plants run on less than 8% of the data they collect. Its Orbital model fuses time series, physics and language. KBR led the $20m round.