Younis: All physical machinery will become autonomous over a 20-year horizon
Qasar Younis · Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show · Jul 21, 2026 · at 31:28
Qasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. He is outlining his long-term prediction for full autonomy across physical machines and industrial vehicles.
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“All these things will be fully autonomous. But the intermittent steps are very much what we saw in the PC, where you have this slow step up to one day that'll be like, now nobody really looks at laptop specs and even maybe, frankly, your phone specs. But that's not the case from basically 85 to 2002, 2005, where finally people stop actually speccing at all. And then they're really moving to laptops. But there's a similar kind of 20 year, I think, horizon there.”
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