Erin Price-Wright

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The a16z Show · Designing the Physical World with AI · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

That's exactly right.

So what I like, my eventual goal is that simulation becomes a train time tool that you use for the model to become better at developing that taste.

Because at inference time, you don't want to, like, simulation has some, like, properties.

Like, it's not super fast.

Like, you can speed it up with, like, parallel, like, kernels, and you can do a lot of things.

But simulation is fundamentally something that we hope to use at training time rather than at inference time.

And we built all the hooks to do it because it's important to ground physicality.

You basically need to provide ground truth somehow.

But we are really seeing emerging properties where if you train the model with enough data, it will develop that taste.

And in 95% of the cases, that's what you want.

You get the product very fast.

And it's very, very hard to beat

actual manufactured hardware.

The best engineers I know will spend like three weeks simulating something and then they will be like, I don't trust it until I actually built it and put it in an enclosure where we'll change completely my electromagnetic properties, for example.

So it's just like simulation needs to be a training tool and then you kind of need to get physics to tell you you're right or you're wrong.

So reducing the training time is probably the most important part.

So my co-founder, his name is Lenny.

He is the smarter one.

So I will say this is a very important premise.

Him and I have a philosophical disagreement on this.

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