Inside the AI Garage Powering the Real World

**SPEAKER_2** (0:08)
We have defense, we have auto, we have trucking, we have mining, we have agriculture, we're on the sea.

**Molly O'Shea** (0:12)
It's like, what the? Qasar and Peter, we are here at the Physical AI Day.

**Qasar Younis** (0:37)
Yes.

**Molly O'Shea** (0:38)
And you're gonna show us around, I guess you call this the garage?

**Qasar Younis** (0:41)
Yeah, this is actually, it looks really nice today, but it's actually a working garage. You have a couple of large garages that we do all of our work in, working with both physical vehicles, and obviously testing and all of that stuff. But yeah, this is the garage. It's the only place where we wear our shoes.

**Molly O'Shea** (0:57)
I saw that there's a station over there, everybody's shoes are in cubbies.

**Qasar Younis** (1:01)
Yeah, that's from the early days in the company. We've been doing it for a long time. Now, also to give credit where credit's due. I think Gusto also did this in parallel, but I'm not sure they still do it. But yeah, we were in a house in the start of the company, and we literally had people, including Peter, living in the house.
Then probably a year is when we actually got our first office, and we're like, let's keep the cleanliness going. Also, I lived in Japan, and in the office in Japan, and you take off your clothes, and you have a work uniform, and then you have your work shoes.

**Molly O'Shea** (1:35)
What are we going to get some Applied Intuition workwear?

**Qasar Younis** (1:39)
We have workwear. We don't force everybody to wear it all the time. But if you go to Japan and you go to Honda, every employee is wearing the same uniform, engineers, and then they're wearing a flat 80s hat that says Honda on it. It's fantastic. I feel like if we do that and we start doing calisthenics in the morning, it's going to be a little too off-brand for Silicon Valley.

**Peter Ludwig** (2:02)
You'll only fully appreciate that if you've been to Japan. Yeah, exactly.

**Qasar Younis** (2:06)
It's all true. Yeah, and it's fun.

**Molly O'Shea** (2:08)
Okay, so we're here in the Auto Center.

**Peter Ludwig** (2:11)
Oh, yeah.

**Molly O'Shea** (2:11)
Big sign. Let's talk about this.

**Qasar Younis** (2:13)
So today we had our first ever physical AI day. Historically, we've never invited people in to our garages and things like that. And so when we thought about, okay, now how do we show what we're doing? We have all these different sections, and this just highlights a little bit of what we do in automotive. All of our major product lines are also available in automotive, so that means the, let's say, the developer tooling you would use to write software and deploy it onto vehicles, that's one of our products. Vehicle operating system that abstracts hardware and software away from each other, kind of like you'd have on a laptop or on a phone, that type of operating system is also something we do in automotive. And then, of course, self-driving. We do self-driving in automotive. And we do it from L2++ all the way to full autonomy. But, yeah, this is the auto section. And if you look behind you, you'll see kind of the guts of a car. Peter, you want to talk about this a little bit?

**Peter Ludwig** (3:05)
Yeah, so here we're just showing this is a production vehicle that's disassembled and just has all of its electronics laid out.

**Qasar Younis** (3:12)
Hence it says before.

**Peter Ludwig** (3:15)
A traditional vehicle, exactly. And you can see just the mass of complexity and wires.

**Qasar Younis** (3:20)
This is really what a car is and the guts of the car.

**Molly O'Shea** (3:22)
It looks like a mess.

**Qasar Younis** (3:24)
It is a mess, yeah, yeah. And I think if, for the astute viewer, you'll see all of these cables and you're like, why do you have so much wiring harness when typically it can be much more simple? That's a real legacy of the existing supply chain. If you're a company that sells, let's say, a backup camera, you're not only going to sell the backup camera, you're going to sell all the wiring that goes to some compute. And then you have to do that for your windows that go up and down, on the sunroof, and that's why all this is complex. But in the after, what we do is we actually take all of that compute that's disparate around the vehicle into essentially a contained one box. It's not precisely a one box, but for all intents and purposes it is. And then you can run very few cables to that one box, and that box has higher performance compute in it, and has all the signals from the vehicle. So then you can do really interesting things, and including just abstracting hardware and software away from each other, which allows the developers to develop apps for the vehicle in a way that you would like for a laptop or for a phone.