**Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company**  
I joined Applied Intuition as a new-grad engineer back in early 2019, when it was just a handful of us working above a bar on Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale. Today I'm Deputy CTO of the company (that now has over 1,000 engineers). Here's why I've stayed all these years.

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**Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company**  
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