Q So Peter, you were on stage and you walked through the timeline of the company and some of the biggest milestones. For people who didn't get to see that, maybe they will, but could you share some of those biggest milestones?
A Yeah. So, uh, we, we started in 2017, uh, in, uh, I call it the, the early era of self-driving cars. And, ah, and back then, for strategy reasons, we didn't think it was going to be smart for us to really go directly into self-driving at that moment. Um, but we started out building tools. We built simulators and data management offerings and, and large-scale distributed compute offerings, and we sold these out to the industry, and, ah, that was sort of our, our early success as a company, and then, ah, they gave us resources. Yeah. Yeah. And we just learned and learned and learned. Um, and we really expanded out and became very horizontal. We started working in a bunch of different industries and, um, and we were very much on top of all of the, the latest AI breakthroughs at every step. And so we could sort of see when, when something interesting was happening, should that actually change our strategy? And, and so there were a few interesting things that happened, which, which evolved the strategy. One was transformers. Um, that were originally successful for large language models, like you heard about Anthropic and OpenAI, um, those started to have an impact on self-driving technology and robotics, and we thought that was really interesting, and then on top of that, there was, uh, some breakthroughs in what's called end-to-end deep learning, which is where you can now take lot…
AI assessment note: “we started in 2017... We built simulators and data management offerings”