AI on the platform

concept · Reviewed 2026-09-18 GA

Rescale has three different AI capabilities, and they are easy to confuse because all three answer questions about your engineering work. This page is the map. Each links to its own documentation.

Edison, agents, and AI Physics

Capability	What it does	Reach for it when
Rescale Edison	A conversational interface built into the platform. Ask about your jobs, files, results and spending in natural language	You want an answer about work you have already done, without building a query or exporting a CSV
Agents	Purpose-built specialists, one task each: recommend hardware before a run, diagnose a failed job, report on spending, and at the higher tier validate inputs, fix failures and build workflows	You have a specific job to be done and want it done rather than explained
AI Physics	Trains surrogate models on your simulation data, then runs inference in place of a solve	The solve itself is the bottleneck and you can trade some accuracy for speed

Edison and agents are the same family: Edison is the general interface, an agent is a specialist it can hand a task to, and you can also run agents directly. AI Physics is a different thing altogether, changing how a result is produced rather than how you ask about it.

Which solution area provides what

Availability follows your solution area rather than a per-feature switch, so this is usually the answer to "why can I not see that".

Agentic Engineering is sold in place of Advanced Modeling & Simulation, not alongside it. A workspace on Agentic Engineering therefore has everything listed against Advanced Modeling & Simulation as well.

Capability	Comes with
Rescale Edison	Advanced Modeling & Simulation
The simulation agents: hardware recommendation, failure diagnosis, billing reporting	Advanced Modeling & Simulation
Further agents that act rather than advise, plus building your own	Agentic Engineering
Knowledge bases, so Edison can read inside your documents	Agentic Engineering
AI Physics	AI Physics, which builds on Advanced Modeling & Simulation

An administrator controls this per workspace, so two people in the same organization can see different sets. If the capability you expect is missing, that is where to ask.

What it costs

Edison and agent usage is metered rather than unlimited. See AI credits for how that is measured and tracked.

Related

• Rescale Edison — the full guide, including administrator questions
• Agents — what each agent does and the four ways to run one
• AI Physics — datasets, training, and inference
• MCP Server — connect your own AI client to Rescale instead of using ours
• AI credits — how usage is metered