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The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis

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You decided to join Twitter recently, put out your first tweet, Mark Andreessen quo tweeted it and said, This is the best AI CO nobody knows. Our best work is done alone and quietly. Every minute you're writing something for public consumption, you're not focusing Your very limited time that you have on your customers and your product you're building a lot of the future that we're gonna be living in. What does the next couple years look like? Us solving some of these impossible problems like cancer. Are directly gonna be related to this AI boom. Net suffering in humanity overall should go down significantly. A thread that has emerged on this podcast is that AI is coming just in time to save us. The real impact of AI in the next five to ten years really is gonna be in farming, mining, construction. These industries, they need Need autonomy and it couldn't come soon enough. If you look at farmers, the average age of a farmer is in their late 50s. What does that mean in 10 years from now? There's a lot of anxiety about what AI is gonna do to the world. The core root of fear is misunderstanding. If you at home are very anxious about AI, the best thing that you can do is spend time to understand. and you will quickly the limitations. Get to know it, then actively make the technology be used for good.

Today my guest is Casser Yunis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. You've probably never heard of Castor or applied intuition. This is the most important under the radar AI company and CEO that I've ever come across. It's a fifteen billion dollar company that has been growing quietly over the last decade. What they do is they add AI to vehicles.

Like cars, tractors, planes, submarines, mining rigs, and a lot more, eighteen out of the top twenty automakers are customers, as well as the biggest global construction, mining, and trucking companies. Also the Department of Defense. They're basically Waymo or Tesla, but without the hardware. Casser himself was born on a farm in Pakistan. Grew up in Detroit, started his career as an engineer at GM, and then at Bosch.

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