Simulator

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Dolgov: Waymo distills driver, simulator, and critic from one foundation model
“The way we think about the, you know, building the Waymo driver it starts with a large off-board foundation model. I can imagine, you know, building a big model that understands how the physical world works and understands the, Important properties of what it …”
Dmitri Dolgov Mar 24, 2026 ▶ 7:15 The 20-year journey to fully autonomous cars with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
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Fedus: Physics provides ideal verifiable reward functions for AI
“Physics is very verifiable. It's a great reward function, fairly fast iteration loop. You have simulators for large classes of physical systems.”
Liam Fedus Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 3:35 Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
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Dolgov: Building AV drivers requires iteratively modeling simulation environments and actors
“To build a good driver, you need to have a very good simulator, but to have a good simulator, you actually have to build models of, like, realistic pedestrians and cyclists and drivers, right? So it's, you know, you kind of do that iteratively.”
Dmitry Dolgov Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 12:18 How Waymo Is Using GenAI to Build a Better Driver
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Younis: Legacy Level 2 AV simulation literally pointed cameras at monitors
“Historically the tooling for level two systems, what Peter mentioned earlier, LCC and ACC Lane Keep and Adaptive Cruise Control, those were more hardware-focused tools, and so they would, the quote-unquote simulators were trying to spoof the hardware that is a…”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 14:27 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future

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