Laplace Intelligence is building agentic world models that help cities, ports, and airports roll out counterfactual futures of the real world before they act. See how modeling the physical world closely enough to predict what comes next could change how infrastructure operators make decisions. This is their six-minute pitch from the Startup Battlefield Top 20.
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