Qasar Younis, CEO of Applied Intuition, describes consumer-ready autonomous vehicle features observed during benchmarking visits to China.
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Younis: US is doomed if commercial software firms refuse DOD support
“If small and large commercial software companies don't support our government, and specifically the Department of Defense, we're screwed.”
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Younis: Future warfare will be software-defined, not driven by hardware
“I think it's not controversial to say that the conflicts of the future are going to be software defined. They're, it's not going to be very traditional conflicts where you have You know aircraft carriers lining up or you have tank columns”
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Younis: Software engineers hold senior defense decision-making roles in China
“In China, this is, you know, this is the reality. Engineers software engineers are very senior within the party and within the defense apparatus, and they are making these decisions”
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Yudis: Tesla and Waymo autonomous vehicle approaches will technically converge
“And so the next kind of 10 years is, and I think what you'll ultimately see is, like, somewhat of a very technical convergence, because the Tesla system is a very sensor light system. It's basically just a camera system. And the Waymo system is very sensor hea…”
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Yudis: Transformer architectures bring LLM-style data scaling laws to autonomy
“There's a similar you know, let's say paradigm shift happening in autonomy and in vision systems as well with transformers, and so what that ultimately means in autonomy is the similar dynamics in large language models, you can put lots of data in, and you get…”
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Yudis: Widespread autonomous vehicle adoption will occur within 5 to 7 years
“So that's all gonna happen in the next five, seven years. You don't need to go on five autonomy rides to be kind of blown away. And so I think all of that, that, all of that is coming.”