Qasar Younis

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[Qasar Younis @qasar]

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. https://t.co/C0itme9LKX

[Malhar Patel @malharhar]

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 :)

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

OG FDE

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[Applied Intuition @AppliedInt]

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: https://t.co/9cUSDS5b65

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

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 🐻

[Applied Intuition @AppliedInt]

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: https://t.co/XqDpTGHVfy

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

@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.

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

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

https://t.co/ZobcjYikAY

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

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

https://t.co/fQYYfOGhdT

[a16z @a16z]

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

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

@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

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

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[Qasar Younis @qasar]

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[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞
https://t.co/XOc7X4jOxq

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

When we look back 25 years from now, one of the larger impacts of AI will be injecting intelligence into machines that move us & things

[a16z @a16z]

Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis: "Our vision of the future is every moving machine will be intelligent."

"[Self-driving is] one part of that intelligence. It’s not the whole thing."

"Once you have a beefy central compute, you can do a lot more things with it."

"Just think about this dumb car or this dumb tank becoming more like your phone."

@qasar on Uncapped with @jaltma

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

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[Forbes @Forbes]

Applied Intuition’s cofounders are building software that can drive everything from planes to tanks to automobiles.

But to expand beyond its $800 million business selling tech for cars, they will have to take on Tesla, Google, Nvidia and a host of other startups jostling for pole position in the autonomy race.

Read the full story: https://t.co/ANkrOw2yR7
📸: Cody Pickens for Forbes

[Applied Intuition @AppliedInt]

Career advice from Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase — yes, please.

Be the person in the room people want to listen to👂.

Get more advice from his conversation with @qasar at Applied Intuition ➡️ https://t.co/eF3drScB3c

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

To echo Jamie: the biggest threats for the company, the country, and even ourselves is from within, rather than external factors like competitors.

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

Jamie Dimon visited us and gave a talk that could be roughly summarized as "The Enemy Within".

A simply incredible conversation.

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[Qasar Younis @qasar]

Don't underestimate the ability to easily communicate complex topics