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Physical AI will produce bigger companies than digital AI because it impacts the real economy—manufacturing, mining, logistics, transportation—where the global economy actually lives.

The global economy is physical—manufacturing, mining, logistics—and AI that moves physical things will create larger companies than digital AI, just as Amazon and Apple became the giants of the internet era. ✦ AI generated

Speaker 1 (Qasar Younis — co-founder/CEO of Applied Intuition) · a16z Podcast · 2026-07-21 · original ↗

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Digital AI of course is building software and optimizing ads and creating videos, that sort of thing. That's all interesting and good, but really where you talk about the global economy, that's physical AI. And then we're talking about manufacturing and mining and logistics and transportation... I think when we look back 25 years in this intelligence revolution, the companies that impact the physical world might actually be bigger than the companies that impact the digital world.

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0:00Our mission is to put intelligence on a billion machines and we think that can have a profound impact on society. Applied intuition is a physical AI company. We put intelligence on machines, cars, trucks, tanks, drones. It's a physical moving thing. We make it intelligent. >> Digital AI, of course, is building software and optimizing ads and creating videos. That's all interesting and good, but really where you talk about the

0:23global economy, that's physical AI. In this intelligence revolution, the companies that impact the physical world might actually be bigger [music] than the companies that impact the digital world. >> How many things are there where the idea of physical AI, physical intelligence are going to matter? >> There's no reason autonomy should be this obscure, difficult technology. Our vision for that is a high school kid that can make iPhone apps should be able

0:45to make autonomous systems. That platform for designing and developing is what we're launching. It's called Dana. Everything that we've built and developed over the past nearly a decade that's available in Dana. >> Which will we get first? A perfectly simulated real world environment for training autonomous devices or Grand Theft Auto 6. [laughter] >> Kazer Peter welcome to the Z podcast. >> Well, thanks for having us. Your name is

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