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After 16 years and 10 months -- I'm finally writing my first...X? Also, will start writing more regularly.
My first post is, ironically, on why I'm posting. qy.co/new
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Qasar Younis
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Qasar Younis
@qasar
1 person in 8 billion.
applied.co Katılım Mart 2009
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We're raising funding at $188 billion valuation to double down on our AI strategy focused on three priorities:
1️⃣ Unity AI Gateway - our multi-AI governance solution that helps control costs.
2️⃣ Genie - our AI coworkers that actually understand your business data.
3️⃣ Lakebase - our serverless Postgres database specifically for AI agents.
databricks.com/company/newsro…
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New from the @AppliedInt research team: TerraZero. Built by people a lot smarter than me :)
It lets us train driving policies entirely from scratch with zero human demonstrations using self-play.
It's #1 on InterPlan long-tail planning, matches the realism of demonstration-trained sim agents on @Waymo's benchmark (without human driving behavior), and is pretty performant (2.8M sim steps/sec on 8 GPUs) which is needed for large-scale RL.
Check it out here: terra-applied.github.io/TerraZero
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now thats a throwback! yes, thats me with hair
a16z@a16z
.@pmarca on founders almost always being too early, not too late: "We almost never see a qualified founder fail because they're too late to market. It's almost always because they're too early to market." "The iPad was like this breakthrough product in 2009... well, there was this thing called the Newton twenty years earlier. It was the iPad twenty years earlier, and it was like virtually the same thing, and the world just wasn't ready yet." "I think that's the permanent curse of the entrepreneur." YC Startup School 2016, with @qasar
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now thats a throwback! yes, thats me with hair
Ivan Burazin@ivanburazin
.@sama wasn't the first person to talk about a solo unicorn. It was the co-founder of Applied Intuition @qasar, who said that the first billion-dollar company built by a single person will happen in our lifetime. He was a partner at YC at the time and joined me for a fireside chat at the @InfoBipShift conference in Croatia in 2015. I thought it was a bit too ambitious, and hence the Tony Stark quip at the end.
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.@sama wasn't the first person to talk about a solo unicorn.
It was the co-founder of Applied Intuition @qasar, who said that the first billion-dollar company built by a single person will happen in our lifetime.
He was a partner at YC at the time and joined me for a fireside chat at the @InfoBipShift conference in Croatia in 2015.
I thought it was a bit too ambitious, and hence the Tony Stark quip at the end.
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@MollySOShea Bingo! Honestly I was just happy that I could have a real conversation around students on AI and not get tomatoes thrown at me 😅
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There are two paths for an immigrant -- either become an engineer or doctor. Now I iz both
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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 :)
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Current world models often separate spatial reasoning from temporal modeling, leading to consistency bottlenecks and scaling limits. We developed RAYNOVA, a 4D world foundation model, to address this by unifying space and time into a single representation via a pure auto-regressive framework.
The result: Data-driven high-fidelity simulation data that scales across any vehicles, anywhere.
Read the full technical breakdown: appliedintuition.com/research-blog/…
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We got a Deputy CTO. Is that a made up title? Hint, all titles are made up. But that's not the point!
The point is if you're a young engineer, it's important you find good role models and I think @malharhar is a good example of a good role model.
Malhar Patel@malharhar
I wanted my first public video to be learnings from the past 7.5 years here at @AppliedInt. Hopefully it’s useful to the next set of builders 🐻
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Applied Intuition x @Stellantis —expanded.
Our Vehicle OS and autonomy infrastructure will now be integrated into Stellantis's next-gen STLA Brain platform, powering multiple brands across their global portfolio.
One unified, AI-defined foundation built to scale, with faster development cycles, faster time to market, and continuous feature deployment across the vehicle lifecycle.
Learn more about the next phase of our work together here: appliedintuition.com/press-releases…
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@bencasnocha what resonates with me is that at the end, very little matters. So much of stress, anxiety (and on the flip side, happiness and euphoria) come from the belief that we’re very important. This article makes me think that actually you’re not important to everyone or even a large number of people. And rather than trying to understand everyone and be a part of all humanity, the focus should be on those immediately around us. Outside of those groups, on your deathbed it won’t really matter. So it’s not YOLO or even nihilism - but recognizing you’re here for a small group of people and then you’ll pass. And so in that perspective, to let everything beyond that go.
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@qasar What part of it most resonates / how has it changed how you live?
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Great article I read at least once a year since it came out. I've come to think so much of wisdom is gained from perspective
archive.is/EwSWT
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This has got to be one of the best opening scenes ever. What does this have to do with AI or the valley or whatever? Nothing. Grow yourself by exposing your self to great work. If you haven't seen this movie, you're in for a treat. It's high art
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Qasar Younis on how Applied Intuition uses books to mold company culture:
"We also read books as a company, as a leadership team, and then we invite the whole company to do it."
"Think about your company as this bespoke piece of clothing that you get made, and then you grow, and then before you know it, you have to constantly re-tailor your company for the scale and type of company it is."
@qasar @AppliedInt
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"The best books to read are the old books." - @qasar "Over 25-50 years, time has filtered all the noise, so you get a lot of signal." "In your life, how many books are you going to read?" "Pick the really good ones—because what you read does impact your view of the world."
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@jasonyangsays In the words of Prince Paul: more than you know! But what I've learned working on Applied stuff is that to do something truly exceptional you realize pretty quickly the idea is 1% of path
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@qasar I wonder how many "If I started a company in this space..." scenarios run through your mind on a daily basis
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