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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

Ontological model.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Like a simple representation of a complex system.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah, I did a kick in for a minute.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And you basically have a combination of like provide an environment that agents and people

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

LLMs can generate a bunch of code that fits within this framework that we've provided it.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And it has the ability to use all these deterministic tools almost the same way a regular engineer would.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And if you can do that in this model-led way, you basically have this parametric relationship to everything.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And what's really important is that, well, every time you tweak and adjust, it just gets better and it improves its like resilience.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So, yeah, probably like the biggest way that that shows up for our customers is that, you know, if you spend six months designing something and say you have another like three months before you kind of lock everything and you fund the project and you build it.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

If you want to change something six months in, yeah, you'd like start over.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah, and it's a total nightmare.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

In this version, it's like everything's just like an updated variable.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So it's highly both optimized, but also you can iterate on these things.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So yeah, it's basically this combination of a very model-led approach that allows you to use these agents to write code, which is what they know how to do.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

put on rails.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

We certainly use simulation to compute basically the values that are required for the design, but we don't have- Give an example.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I want to understand what a mass flow rate is of a fluid that's going through a pipe with a certain consistency at a certain temperature and pressure.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And that's like a weird problem that you have to solve for that has multiple variables that are all interdependent.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So you run into a simulation environment and it explores a pretty wide space.