What kind of companies will win in physical AI?
Companies that own real-world sensor infrastructure — fleets, factories, medical devices, home hardware — rather than generalist software labs. Owning the pipeline that captures physical data at scale is becoming the actual moat in physical AI, not model architecture alone.
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