AI enters the world with Inhi Cho Suh from Niantic Spatial | Zero-Shot Learning

Despite the wealth of information LLMs draw on, they are not reliably grounded in the physical world. Spatial knowledge is rarely written into agentic development and remains invisible to LLMs. This episode’s guests, Niantic Spatial’s CEO Inhi Cho Suh and Director of Product Management Eugene Chong, are building a grounding layer to fill that gap. Inhi and Eugene join 1Password CTO Nancy Wang and Google Gemini’s Dev Tagare to discuss why spatial understanding is a prerequisite for AI systems operating in the physical world and the grounding layer for world models to make spatial data precise and useful to AI.

In this episode:
Without an accurate grounding layer, world models are guessing at a world they don’t actually know
Spatial data prevents AI hallucinations by providing “ground truth” instead of predictions of what comes next
Precision enables AI behaviors that weren’t previously possible, like choosing safe delivery drop-off locations
Flipping the sim-to-real process leads to faster and more precise deployment at scale

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Inhi’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inhichosuh/
Eugene’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/e-chong/

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