Applied Intuition is the physical AI company bringing intelligence to every moving machine on the planet.
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17 Jun 2025
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/se…
#fundraising #seriesf #startup
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Jun 12
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/ma…
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"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."
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Jun 11
"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/ap…
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Applied Intuition retweeted
Jun 3
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.
Jun 3
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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Jun 8
"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/firsth…
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Jun 4
I think this point from @malharhar, who is one of the earliest employees @AppliedInt is so right.
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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.
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Jun 3
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/researc…
Want a deeper dive? Learn more here: nord-vla-ai.github.io/
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Applied Intuition retweeted
Jun 3
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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Jun 1
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/researc…
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May 30
"Applied Intuition's software architecture is designed to allow different brands to maintain distinct identities even while sharing the same underlying technology".
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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/researc…
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May 27
What does a 7.5-year journey from new grad to Deputy CTO look like?
📽️ Watch Malhar sit down with our co-founders to discuss his growth, leadership, and the many hats he’s worn at Applied Intuition.
Read the blog 👉 appliedintuition.com/blog/ma…
May 27
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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May 26
Our approach to hiring top engineering talent has evolved.
Tune in to the conversation our co-founder and CEO, @Qasar, had with @bznotes on how hiring technical talent has changed over the years.
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/kACt28HnA6o?si=LE8_…
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自動車業界は今、AI ディファインド ビークルの新たな時代へと急速に進化しています。
今回 Applied Intuition チームは人とくるまのテクノロジー展 2026 横浜で、自動運転の開発・検証、次世代HMI、ビークル インテリジェンスなど、未来のモビリティを支えるソフトウェアと AI 技術についてご紹介します。
ぜひ弊社ブース（ノース会場 N72）へお立ち寄りいただき、自動車開発の未来をご覧ください。
We are moving rapidly toward an AI-defined automotive industry.
Join us at the Yokohama Expo to explore how AI is transforming the way vehicles are developed, tested, and deployed. From end-to-end autonomy software to next-generation HMI systems, we are bringing physical AI to the forefront of core vehicle systems.
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