Applied Intuition

We've closed our Series F round of fundraising at a $15B valuation. Our goal: To bring vehicle intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Learn more about our vision and road ahead: appliedintuition.com/blog/series-f?… #fundraising #seriesf #startup

Did you catch this week's episode of @LemonadeCast? @DougDougFood and @aidencalvin stopped by HQ to tour our garage and talk all things physical AI.

本日、Applied Intuitionの自動運転システムが正式に日本へ上陸しました。日本の自動車業界は、サプライヤーに対して独自の基準を課しています。 私たちは長年にわたり、日本に拠点を持つチーム、日本でのデータインフラ、日本の企業とのパートナーシップを構築し、その基準を満たす準備を進めてきました。 自動運転を世界中でスケーラブルにするためのこの重要な一歩について、詳しくはこちら：appliedintuition.com/ja/blog/applie… Today, Applied Intuition's Self-Driving System officially comes to Japan. The Japanese automotive industry holds its suppliers to a different standard. We've been building to meet it for years: local teams, local data infrastructure, local partnerships. Learn more about this important step toward making autonomy scalable worldwide: appliedintuition.com/blog/applied-i…

Applied Intuition CEO @qasar says the market for physical AI is "way, way bigger" than the market for white-collar AI: "I used to be at Y Combinator. I was the COO, ran the firm, and funded lots of interesting companies. And one of the analogies I used to use to help founders understand market potential and size is: I grew up in Detroit. You're sitting in the Detroit metro airport at a gate, and you look around. How many of those people are using Claude Code? Frankly speaking, not many." "But how many of those people drive? How many people work at construction sites? How many of those people ride in buses? How many of those people serve in our armed forces? The point is: a much, much larger group." "The market for physical AI is way, way bigger. Purely because the surface area is much bigger." From his appearance on the show in March.

It’s no longer about just banging out code. As our co-founder and CTO, Peter Ludwig, said on @latentspacepod, the engineering talent standing out the most today knows how to ask the right questions and integrate AI tools into their workflow effectively. Want to build with us? Learn more about our team: appliedintuition.com/careers?utm_so… Watch into the full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=rv23_K…

What does it take to be Deputy CTO at Applied Intuition? For @malharhar: solving the hard problems. Watch the full interview here: appliedintuition.com/blog/malhar-pa…

"We've raised about $1B, and that's basically all on the balance sheet. Very rare for an AI company to have a business model," @AppliedInt's @qasar tells @ReedAlbergotti. "Lots of other models, but the business model seems to be the most elusive type of model."

"The sooner you find a partner you can work with this closely, the faster you move." — Georg Pinkert, Applied Intuition When we kicked off our partnership with @TRATON_GROUP , the work wasn't just about building a vehicle OS platform. It was about building a true partnership that transformed the way our companies worked together and at a Silicon Valley speed. From shared source code access to joint engineering teams, we went from a system demo to prototype trucks on the road in 12 months. appliedintuition.com/blog/applied-i…

Every great company is one of a kind. 'Firsthand' is our series @firstround on what actually makes the best ones different: how they operate, decide, and build. New essay with Malhar from Applied Intuition is up.

"Good software is one thing, but making it work reliably on physical hardware in the real world is another." @malharhar has been solving those problems at Applied Intuition since 2019. Now Deputy CTO, he wrote about what it actually takes to build software for the physical world, and why the engineers who thrive here are the ones who want to go where the problems are. Read the full piece in @firstround Review: review.firstround.com/firsthand-appl…

I think this point from @malharhar, who is one of the earliest employees @AppliedInt is so right.

Build physical AI that moves the world. Join our team. appliedintuition.com/careers?utm_so…

エンド ツー エンドの自動運転ソフトウェアから次世代 HMI システムに至るまで、Applied Intuition は自動車業界における自動運転技術の普及を推進しています。 人とくるまのテクノロジー 2026 横浜にて、弊社ブースにお立ち寄りいただいた皆様、誠にありがとうございました。 From end-to-end autonomy software to next-generation HMI systems, we are scaling autonomy for automotive. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth at this year’s Automotive Engineering Exposition at the Yokohama Expo.

Can VLA models for autonomous driving perform without depending on complex reasoning or massive datasets? Our new approach, NoRD (No Reasoning Driving), proves you don’t need massive datasets or heavy reasoning for high performance. ➡️ 60% reduction in training data ➡️ 3x token efficiency ➡️ Competitive benchmark results By eliminating the reasoning overhead, NoRD creates a recipe for high-performance autonomous driving that is not only cheaper to train but also faster to develop and deploy. Read the research blog here: appliedintuition.com/research-blog/… Want a deeper dive? Learn more here: nord-vla-ai.github.io

When I joined @AppliedInt, back in early 2019, it was just a handful of engineers working above a bar in Sunnyvale. The website didn’t really tell you what we were. We just wanted to build amazing products for the real world, from fighter jets to hundred ton trucks to autonomous vehicles. But we’ve always been really paranoid about losing the special culture we built in the early days to the monotony of corporate scale. Somehow, even as we’ve grown into a thousand+ person company, a lot has stayed the same since (like being in the Manhattan of the Bay, Sunnyvale). And of course, we’re still building amazing products. Continuing from my prior video, we captured the culture that pulled me in all those years ago and how we’ve protected it as we’ve grown in this @firstround Review. These are all questions I’ve been asked about in the last few years from founders of all company sizes so might as well put it in one place. P.S. At the minimum, there’s some awesome photos inside so take a look :)

Our team is heading to Denver for #CVPR2026 to share the work we are doing to build the future of physical AI. From research to build, come see how we are translating cutting-edge CV into real-world impact. 📍 Find our team of researchers and engineers at Booth #639. Read some of our recent research here: appliedintuition.com/research?utm_s…

"Applied Intuition's software architecture is designed to allow different brands to maintain distinct identities even while sharing the same underlying technology". @freep freep.com/story/money/ca…