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Jul 27
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.
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Jul 30
Automotive is 3% of global GDP. It's the largest industrial category on earth, and it's one of seven verticals Applied Intuition sells into. Qasar Younis on the size of physical AI. "You have Waymo being valued at a hundred and twenty-six billion dollars by fairly sophisticated
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Jul 27
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.
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Jul 29
The debate about AI taking jobs is a white collar debate. In farming, trucking, and mining, the workers are aging out and nobody is replacing them. Qasar Younis on why physical AI can't arrive fast enough: "In digital AI, there's a lot of teeth gnashing and hand-wringing
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Jul 27
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.
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Jul 28
Applied Intuition has raised about $1B and hasn’t spent any of it: “It's not enough that you have ambition in building a company, your ideas also have to be correct. In the company's history, we raised about a billion dollars and all of that is in the bank. There's not an AI
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Business Breakdowns
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Jul 27
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.
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Jul 27
Applied Intuition's mission is intelligence on a billion machines in the next decade. Qasar (@qasar) and Peter on Dana, their new agentic platform for physical AI that will help us get there faster: "If you ask why don't we have intelligent robots and intelligent vehicles
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Jul 27
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.