Physical AI: Teaching Machines to Understand the Real World

Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community) · Feb 6, 2026 · 52m · transcript

Nick Gillian is the Co-Founder and CTO at Archetype AI, working on physical AI foundation models that understand and reason over real-world sensor data.

Physical AI: Teaching Machines to Understand the Real World // MLOps Podcast #360 with Nick Gillian, Co-Founder and CTO of Archetype AI

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As AI moves beyond the cloud and simulation, the next frontier is Physical AI: systems that can perceive, understand, and act…