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NewsFebruary 1, 2026 · Product

Manifold v6.0 Stable Released

The latest stable release adds improved quality prediction and physics guardrails, with v7.0 now in development.

Niva Files Sixth Provisional Patent Application

Our most technically advanced filing to date. 31 claims covering causal emergence, spectral mode discovery, and temporal integration governance.

Head-to-head: Manifold vs Physical Intelligence on identical hardware

Using the same UR5e robotic arm and sensors, Manifold achieved 98% accuracy vs 14% for Physical Intelligence's π0.5. Zero-shot, no training.

Manifold solves the travelling salesman problem. Without being designed to

When challenged with a routing problem that stumped every frontier LLM, Manifold matched purpose-built optimization algorithms and scaled to 1M points.

Predicting coastal flooding in the Netherlands with satellite data

Using historic ESA Sentinel-1/2 satellite data, Manifold produced a two-week flood forecast for the Dutch coastline. Demonstrating physics generalization beyond manufacturing.

Updates

Manifold v6.0 Stable Released

Niva Files Sixth Provisional Patent Application

Head-to-head: Manifold vs Physical Intelligence on identical hardware

Manifold solves the travelling salesman problem. Without being designed to

Predicting coastal flooding in the Netherlands with satellite data