Applied Intuition Partners With HUMAIN to Push Physical AI Deployment Across Saudi Arabia
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Applied Intuition said it has entered into a long-term commercial partnership with PIF-backed HUMAIN to drive the deployment of physical AI across Saudi Arabia.
The initial focus is autonomous trucks, with a plan to deploy several thousand on major Saudi logistics routes by 2030.
Starting with that effort, the two companies aim to expand into robotaxis, ports and mining, while building the world's largest autonomous truck network.
Applied Intuition announced that it will work with HUMAIN, the PIF-backed full-stack AI company. The collaboration is a long-term commercial partnership that combines HUMAIN's Saudi sovereign AI infrastructure with Applied Intuition's end-to-end physical AI stack, applicable across industries, to drive the deployment of physical AI across Saudi Arabia.
The rollout will begin with autonomous trucks. The two companies plan to deploy several thousand autonomous trucks on major logistics routes in Saudi Arabia by 2030, with a goal of building the world's largest autonomous truck network.
Starting with autonomous trucks, the two companies plan to expand into a range of industries, including robotaxis, ports and mining. As a result, the push to deploy physical AI across Saudi Arabia is expected to begin in logistics before broadening its application scope.
The collaboration is HUMAIN's first major physical AI initiative. Through it, HUMAIN aims to extend AI beyond data centers and into real-world physical systems, with the goal of creating value in the real world.
The initial focus of the collaboration is autonomous trucks. The plan going forward is to expand the use of physical AI into a wide range of areas.
Applied Intuition said Saudi Arabia's geographic characteristics, major freight routes and continued investment in logistics infrastructure provide a foundation for large-scale deployment of autonomous trucks. It also said the ability of autonomous trucks to operate efficiently for long hours could improve freight transport capacity and vehicle utilization.
Applied Intuition said autonomous trucks could contribute to improving road safety and help ease labor shortages in commercial trucking. The collaboration will use Applied Intuition's end-to-end physical AI stack.
The end-to-end physical AI stack includes a multi-domain autonomous driving model that can expand into trucking, mining, agriculture and construction. Applied Intuition's autonomous driving system plays a central role and consists of Vehicle OS and vehicle intelligence technologies, which support the autonomous driving system.
Applied Intuition co-founder and CEO Qasar Younis said physical AI is a key technology opening a new era of intelligent infrastructure. He said Saudi Arabia is implementing physical AI across its economy, and added that Applied Intuition's vision is to bring intelligence to 1 billion devices worldwide. He said he was proud to shape the future of physical AI together with HUMAIN and Saudi Arabia.
HUMAIN CEO Tareq Amin said the company aims to work with Applied Intuition to deploy autonomous trucks at scale in the region. He said he envisions operating several thousand autonomous trucks around the clock, and expects that autonomous truck operations will bring a transformative change in logistics networks' transport speed, cost and capacity, with ripple effects across the broader economy. He also said the collaboration is an opportunity to set a global standard for autonomous freight transport.
Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406478
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