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Richard Ahlfeld

Physical AI

CoreWeave
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October 1, 2026
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Richard Ahlfeld leads Physical AI at CoreWeave and previously founded Monolith. On ThursdAI, live from Fully Connected, he explained AI that perceives, reasons and acts in the real world, from VLA models and world models to the sim-to-real gap, and why industrial robots will arrive before home robots.

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