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Applied Intuition’s 2025 was the year vehicle intelligence moved from vision to reality. This look back highlights flagship product launches, high-impact partnerships in automotive, trucking, mining, and defense, rapid global team growth and new offices, high-profile thought leadership, and a landmark Series F financing at a $15B valuation.

Ensuring dependable ADAS simulation and log replay remains a technical challenge, especially when run across varying hardware and cloud environments. This post examines how Action Graph addresses these issues, enabling more reliable validation, repeatability, and performance for autonomous systems.

Peter Ludwig, Applied Intuition Co-founder and CTO, testified before a House committee on China’s auto threat, physical AI, and software-defined vehicles. His testimony explains how cars are becoming strategic infrastructure, how dual-use autonomy links industry and defense, and where Chinese-connected vehicles create economic and security challenges the United States must actively address.

Explore how Ford Otosan leveraged Applied Intuition’s simulation platform and TruckSim models to advance ADAS development. The collaboration demonstrates a rigorous, data-driven validation process, fostering safety, efficiency, and trust in virtual vehicle simulations

Understanding ODD coverage helps AV developers spot untested conditions, fill data gaps, and justify safety readiness. Learn how Applied Intuition’s Validation Toolset supports smarter coverage analysis through simulation, data tagging, and statistical confidence methods.

Automotive software is increasingly targeted by cyber threats, raising safety and compliance concerns. Read about how Applied Intuition incorporates ISO/SAE 21434 to secure platforms and support rapid regulatory approval for OEMs and suppliers.

Read how Applied Intuition’s Cabin Intelligence empowers Stellantis to deliver next-generation in-vehicle experiences for global brands. With a white-box approach, seamless updates, and support for a range of vehicles, the platform gives each marque a distinct digital experience while increasing operational efficiency for OEMs.

Neural Sim automates the conversion of complex drive data into 3D virtual test environments for SDS evaluation. This blog post shows how Applied Intuition’s engineers use Neural Sim to identify edge cases, reduce on-road testing, and strengthen safety for self-driving vehicle platforms.

Collaborative autonomy fails to field without realistic, repeatable testing. Learn how low-latency, high-fidelity simulation—built on dual-use core technology—brings scalable, operationally realistic testing to unmanned surface and aerial vessels (USVs/UAVs), tackling the hardest challenge ahead: systems integration.

Applied Intuition is redefining aerial autonomy with Acuity and Axion, moving from rigid, legacy systems to modern, modular, and scalable simulation-driven architectures — delivering trusted, adaptable autonomy for modern defense operations.