Tesla missed slightly on earnings per share. Financials improved but not as much as hoped. EPS was (non-GAAP) was 52 cents per share. There was not positive new guidance on car volumes. This is causing the shares to trade down. The restructuring charges for the layoffs were about $280 million more than expected at $622 …
Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla FSD 12.5 is in final testing and that it will be a vast improvement over FSD 12.3.6 and 12.4.3. Elon confirmed that there are important design improvements being made to the Cybercab which will be unveiled at a delayed event. Warren Redlich and Brian Wang discuss FSD 12.5 working with …
Elon Musk said Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026. This should mean hundreds and perhaps thousands of Teslabots in Tesla factories next year. There are handful Teslabots in use in Tesla factories now. There should then …
Reporters visited Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory and provided the following information. • Giga Shanghai is in full operation. • Save 100 meters of production line through the use of vertical lifts. • Four workshops are connected and manufactured parts can be transferred within the workshop. • Fully automated production has been achieved by 95%, and the …
Chuck Cook has drone video of Tesla FSD 12.5 supervised making many perfect unprotected left turns. Tesla FSD is the Full Self Driving product which is a driver assist system the human driver must supervise the driving system. As of Tesla FSD F12.3.6, human drivers will not need to touch the steering wheel. It is …
Elon confirms Tesla test drivers are validating FSD 12.5. This means a new FSD version is soon to be released. Chuck Cook is a famous Tesla FSD tester. He has an unprotected left turn near his house which is a challenging and critical test of any self driving system. When Chuck sees Tesla FSD cars …
An MIT Professor of labor and productivity analysis, Daron Acemoglu, makes a case that AI progress to boosting world GDP growth will be less and transformative change will take longer. His case is not from a deep understanding or analysis of AI. He is looking at the comparative case of the internet. How long did …
Electric hypercar maker Rimac today unveiled their robotaxi prototype, called Verne. • Begin operation in 2026 • Two seater • Uses Mobileye technology • Vehicle is Level 4 fully autonomous • 43″ display, 17 speakers • Rimac has already signed agreements to launch it in 11 cities in the EU, UK, and the Middle East …
Ilya Sutskever is recognized as a leader and genius who has delivered breakthrough Artificial Intelligence. Ilya was the Chief Scientist at OpenAI and enabled OpenAI to become the leader in Artificial Intelligence. Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, …
Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, says humanoid robots will become as common as cars and there will be significant breakthroughs in robotics in the next 2-3 years. This would be about 2 billion humanoid robots. Elon Musk said he thinks there will be ten times as many humanoid robots in the future. This would be 20 …
The Tesla votes were successful. Elon’s 2018 CEO compensation package was re-affirmed. Tesla has voted to move from Delaware to Texas. Tesla’s Optimus robots are currently in action at their Fremont Factory. These robots handle cells and place them in shipping containers. • Elon Musk anticipates having over a thousand Optimus robots operational at Tesla …