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Today, Applied Intuition is launching Dana, an agentic platform for developing physical AI applications. Co-founders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig join a16z's Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg to discuss their mission to put intelligence on one billion machines: 01:34 Physical AI vs digital AI 05:28 Humans as a design...

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Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis on choosing between being a founder and a VC: “[Being a VC is] a cerebral job. And fundamentally what a VC does is you buy and sell stock.” “As a founder, you have to love product and you have to love team building.” “You have to figure out if you’re trying to make this decision, 'should I be a VC or should I be a founder?' Which one of those things resonates with you more?” Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis at Slush

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BREAKING: Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s $15B Physical AI Garage Cars, trucks, mining, construction, agriculture, sea, defense "Bits are out, Atoms are in" Everything that moves will be automated. Co-Founders Qasar Younis Younis (CEO) & Peter Ludwig (CTO) give us the first public-facing tour inside Applied Intuition's garage.. where they’ve been quietly building autonomous AI systems across nearly every industry 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Inside Applied Intuition physical AI garage (03:00) Cars are a wiring mess (04:31) Why modern architecture matters (06:30) From simulators to autonomy (07:50) Real-time autonomous operations (08:34) AI solving labor shortages (10:09) The mobile AI command center (12:50) How defense became a core focus (16:20) Becoming more public (17:10) Connecting mines, ports, and roads (19:07) Driverless trucks in Japan (20:09) Why they don’t operate in China (21:40) Which country is adopting fastest? (23:00) Scaling a 1400-person AI company (25:43) New vs old AI players (27:49) "Bits are out, Atoms are in" (29:40) Physical AI is just getting started (32:06) The "Japan corner"
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BREAKING: Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s $15B Physical AI Garage Cars, trucks, mining, construction, agriculture, sea, defense "Bits are out, Atoms are in" Everything that moves will be automated. Co-Founders Qasar Younis Younis (CEO) & Peter Ludwig (CTO) give us the first public-facing tour inside Applied Intuition's garage.. where they’ve been quietly building autonomous AI systems across nearly every industry 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Inside Applied Intuition physical AI garage (03:00) Cars are a wiring mess (04:31) Why modern architecture matters (06:30) From simulators to autonomy (07:50) Real-time autonomous operations (08:34) AI solving labor shortages (10:09) The mobile AI command center (12:50) How defense became a core focus (16:20) Becoming more public (17:10) Connecting mines, ports, and roads (19:07) Driverless trucks in Japan (20:09) Why they don’t operate in China (21:40) Which country is adopting fastest? (23:00) Scaling a 1400-person AI company (25:43) New vs old AI players (27:49) "Bits are out, Atoms are in" (29:40) Physical AI is just getting started (32:06) The "Japan corner"

Molly O’Shea

80,090 views • 3 months ago