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The $15B Physical AI Company: 4 stack rewrites, end-to-end RL, neural sim, android for vehicles, trucks in Japan Applied Intuition co-founders Qasar Younis (CEO) and Peter Ludwig (CTO) explain why physical machines today look like phones before Android, why the real bottleneck in physical AI is deployment on constrained...

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Qasar Younis was COO of Y Combinator when Sam Altman was its president. Peter Ludwig was an early engineer on Android Automotive at Google. Both are Detroit guys with family roots at General Motors. In 2017, they started Applied Intuition to make a billion machines intelligent. Putting intelligence into a machine is one of the hardest problems in technology. A car, a tractor, and a mining vehicle each have different hardware, different sensors, and lives on the line if the software fails. So instead of building one machine, they built the technology that goes into all of them. Cars, trucks, defense vehicles, mining equipment, combines, robots. Like Nvidia sells chips into everyone else's machines, Applied Intuition sells intelligence. They are the only company in the world that does this across all of these industries. They have raised about a billion dollars. They have never spent any of it. Qasar believes that when we look back 25 years from now, the most important companies in the world will all be physical AI companies. Last week they launched Dana, an agent platform built to get there faster. Enjoy! Qasar Younis Applied Intuition Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 4:08 Why Physical AI Will Be Enormous 5:54 What Applied Intuition Actually Builds 9:25 Timing the Autonomous Revolution 13:59 From Tools to a Full AI Stack 21:40 Why Chatbots Can’t Build Robots 25:18 The Physical AI Data Flywheel 28:19 The Moat Behind Machine Intelligence 30:13 What’s Slowing Physical AI Down? 32:30 Applied Intuition’s Business Model 36:10 Competing in a Massive Market 39:24 The Hardware Renaissance 41:09 Why They Raised $1 Billion 43:49 A World Filled With Intelligent Machines

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New The Peel with Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures! Bilal's spent 18 years investing hard tech, most of it as a GP at Lux ($7B AUM), before starting Redglass.vc in 2025 to bet on AI that touches the physical world. Bilal was making defense tech investments 15 years ago, and he led the Series A in Applied Intuition, now a $15 billion company. We hung out for a few hours and he shared everything he's learned investing in hardware, why hardware is still hard, why the deployment layer is the most attractive area of physical AI, taking a 90% pay cut to start Red Glass, "AUM as a moat", how to become a billionaire off management fees, and why consensus investing is mostly a circle jerk. Full episode here + links below Timestamps 0:00 Leaving $7B to bet on physical AI 0:51 What most people get wrong in physical AI 4:17 Why a startup has to become a business 11:31 Hardware is still hard, so what changed? 15:40 How government went from SBIR mills to real customer 17:48 Robotics goes from hard-coded to probabilistic 23:34 Where value accrues: full stack, then wedges 25:24 How Applied Intuition became a $15B company 28:03 The deployment layer is the real prize 32:22 OpenAI and Anthropic hint what will happen in physical AI 36:14 Why customers have all the downside 37:56 The best founders paint a picture and execute 40:53 Why it's called Red Glass (founders chew glass) 42:17 Every founder hates fundraising, even Travis 44:29 Red Glass's four core values 50:49 Why founders really take your call (the $250k effect) 53:28 What Bilal looks for in a founder 58:44 Why technical founders underrate fundraising 1:00:26 The Tiger Global era 1:04:02 From $10B to $100B, the goalposts moved 1:06:21 Is this a bubble? Portfolio construction 1:08:55 Building a firm that outlasts him 1:12:13 From Nobel-lab chemist to Zero-to-One investor 1:13:45 Are small funds just outsourced associates? 1:16:35 When AUM becomes the moat 1:18:34 How big funds choke off SPV money 1:21:24 The risk of VCs backing competitors 1:23:31 Why fund economics push everyone bigger 1:26:20 Consensus investing is a circle jerk 1:29:51 You can be a billionaire on fees alone 1:33:09 Equal carry and the right to win 1:35:55 Why good ethics in VC matter

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