SES AI Corp
For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Mar 4, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Mar 4, 2026
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Board of Directors and Shareholders
SES AI Corporation
Opinion on the financial statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of SES AI Corporation (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical audit matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Valuation of Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities
As described further in Notes 2 and 12 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has issued Sponsor Earn-Out Shares that are accounted for as a derivative liability (the “Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities”) measured at fair value, with changes in fair value recorded in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss each reporting period. The fair value of the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities are estimated using a Monte Carlo simulation model. The fair value of the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities was determined to be $7,795,000 at December 31, 2025. The gain on change in fair value of Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities was $1,677,000 for the year ended December 31, 2025. We identified the assessment of the fair value of the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities as a critical audit matter.
The principal considerations for our determination that the valuation of the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities is a critical audit matter were (1) the high degree of subjective auditor judgment required due to the complex valuation model and expected term assumption used in the determination of fair value; and (2) the specialized skills and knowledge required to evaluate the Company’s determination of the fair value of the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities.
Our audit procedures related to the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities included the following, among others.
| ● | We evaluated the judgments and assumptions made by management in the determination of the expected term. |
| ● | With the assistance of our valuation specialists, we: |
| o | Evaluated the appropriateness of the Monte Carlo simulation model. |
| o | Performed an independent calculation of the fair value using management’s assumptions and comparing to the fair value of the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities determined by the Company. |
| ● | We evaluated the design and implementation of controls related to the Sponsor Earn-Out Liabilities. |
/s/GRANT THORNTON LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2023.
Boston, Massachusetts
March 4, 2026
SES AI Corporation
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