This 20,000HP AI-generated rocket engine took just two weeks to design and looks like HR Giger's first attempt at designing a trumpet

An AI-generated rocket engine design, on a test bench ready to be fired.

I've never looked at a rocket engine and thought "well that's dull", but this design makes all the others look positively pedestrian. That's because, rather than the traditional process of countless engineers spending months, even years manually engineering a model in programs like CAD, this one was designed in two weeks—thanks largely to AI.

Leap 71, a Dubai-based AI engineering company, says it created the design with Noyron, its Large Computational Engineering Model. The company says it was designed autonomously "without human intervention", before being 3D-printed in copper by German metal 3D-printing company AMCM, post-processed at the University of Sheffield, and then test fired.