The New Zealand government has given $4.5 million from the Catalyst Fund to support the New Zealand United States Digital Twin Research programme. Under the initiative, researchers from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) researchers will work with the Oden Institute from the University of Texas to develop physics-informed AI computational modelling. By combining expertise, tools, and data from both countries, the collaboration will accelerate discoveries and give New Zealand access to cutting-edge science. The potential benefits range from pharmacological modelling to reduce the cost and time to develop new drugs, tools for clinical decision making and public health management with population health models. The funding also enables ABI researchers to work with the country’s leading agricultural and horticultural scientists.