Remember when every new AI release felt like AGI was just around the corner? That feeling is fading. AI progress has slowed. ChatGPT 5 landed with little excitement, and bigger models are no longer delivering bigger breakthroughs. If AI is going to keep improving, it needs a new kind of data. That data will come from the physical world. This is where the richness of human experience actually happens, and where the next wave of meaningful progress will be found.