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Alex Modon

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170 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And our team doesn't, you know, we have some folks that come from large capital projects in oil and gas and energy world.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

But the majority of people are like they work on, you know, cutting edge vehicles, rockets, that type of background.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah, totally.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Totally.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I mean, the value prop for us is not that it's cheaper from an engineering perspective.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Engineering is such a small percentage of the cost anyways that no one wants to compress that.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

It is that if you can bring in a schedule by three months or six months, that actually material impacts.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

How about you guys?

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Super cool to hear.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah, same philosophy as like everything is code.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And if you can play in a language that the models already understand, your life is like a bajillion times easier.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And so for us, it's like the industry really works much more...

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

maybe deliverables based or output focused.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

We're always thinking about it.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

It's like everything's a snowflake.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

It's like always end of one, which is the core fundamental problem of why it takes so long and we don't get better.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Like we're not improving our rate of building these projects.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And so our world looks much more like model led.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

It's like, how do you actually embody all the relationships into some really robust model?