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Applied Intuition serves 18 of the top 20 global automakers, excluding those in China.
Applied Intuition is currently operating Level 4 (L4) autonomous driverless trucks in Japan.
Applied Intuition developed its own operating system for vehicles after finding existing market solutions to be inadequate for deploying modern AI.
Applied Intuition's operating system enables automakers to perform highly reliable over-the-air (OTA) updates for any system in a vehicle, including safety-critical components.
In addition to automotive, Applied Intuition has customers in the agriculture, defense, and construction sectors.
Applied Intuition's product portfolio consists of over 30 distinct products.
Applied Intuition's technology stack undergoes a complete evolution approximately every two years, with the company having completed about four such cycles to date.
Engineers make up 83% of Applied Intuition's total workforce.
Applied Intuition employs approximately 1,000 engineers and has hired over 40 former company founders.
Tesla's research and development vehicles, including Model Ys and Cybertrucks, have been observed using LiDAR sensors for data collection.
LiDAR is used on R&D vehicles to gather ground-truth depth data, which trains vision models to infer depth from camera-only inputs, enabling the removal of LiDAR from production vehicles.
Most automakers do not provide frequent over-the-air (OTA) software updates, and when they do, the updates are typically limited to non-critical systems like the HMI, requiring a dealer visit for safety-critical updates.