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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 constraint 10:30 Beyond robotaxis and humanoids 19:04 What killed Cruise 28:19 The chip maker playbook 35:26 When self-driving is the default 45:14 Nobody wants to drive trucks 49:54 Introducing Dana 1:00:54 "World model" means 100 things 1:05:28 GTA 6 may be the last of its kind 1:15:40 Fear of AI is a luxury @qasar @AppliedInt @pmarca @eriktorenberg
@qasar Wow congratulations Qasar!
.@AppliedInt Co-founders @qasar and Peter Ludwig on why tools like Dana will make building autonomous robots as easy as building iPhone apps: "Why can't a ninth grader make a delivery robot in their home?" "The robot runs into the wall. Okay, what happened there? The loop closes." "That platform for designing and developing is what we're launching, it's called Dana." "If you look at how tooling has changed in the digital AI world... now everything has moved into a very different, almost IDE. We think the same thing's going to happen in the physical world." "Fundamentally, Dana is our agentic platform for physical AI. And everything that we've built and developed over the past nearly a decade, every tool, every technique, that's available in Dana." "And it's very easy to use with the agentic interface. And so workflows that used to maybe take days or weeks to run, you can now run those in minutes in many cases."
For 9+ years we’ve been building simulators, data engines, data pipelines, scenario editors, RL environments, what's now world models... and dozens of other products. Now we’ve connected them all under one agentic layer. It is not just another harness but also the broader system to safely design, develop, and deploy Physical AI. I continue to believe a modern, AI-first development environment is one of the biggest bottlenecks to putting intelligence on a billion machines. Unsurprisingly, we’ve been using it internally for a while now and the impact has been profound in almost every measurable way. As you might know, our old office was on the corner of Pioneer and Dana – and calling it Pioneer would be too cliche. Introducing Dana :) http://applied.co/dana-blog
@qasar cool, what does Dana stand for?
@qasar very exciting launch!!