Tesla CEO Elon Musk bragged about his firm’s inside developments in AI, together with {hardware} and chip design, saying he’d select the corporate’s in-house work over any different.
“There’s really is just not a chip from Nvidia—or from any firm—that we would favor to place in our automotive that’s higher than what now we have within the automotive,” he stated. “We began from scratch in chip design, simply as we began from scratch in AI software program, and have the perfect real-world AI software program and the perfect AI inference chip on the planet— from nothing.”
His remarks got here throughout a presentation and Q&A following the corporate’s intently watched shareholder assembly, the place holders of Tesla inventory voted to re-approve Musk’s controversial $56 billion pay package deal—nonetheless topic to judicial overview—in addition to a transfer of its company headquarters from Delaware to Texas, in line with a report by Bloomberg.
To wrap up the occasion, he took to the stage to debate the corporate’s plans for its strains of autos, automotive software program, robotics, and AI.
Central to Tesla’s long-terms plans is its objective of full self-driving (FSD) automobiles, and Musk claimed Tesla’s tech is the perfect.
“Tesla additionally writes quite a lot of software program internally,” Musk instructed the viewers. “The Tesla working system internally is head and shoulders above what some other firm has, I feel in all probability higher than any Fortune 500 firm that has inside software program—it is simply method higher.”
“Taking a video and making choices primarily based on the video? Nobody is shut, and it is getting higher with every passing month, if not passing week,” he added.
Describing Tesla as excess of a automotive firm, Musk took purpose at rival AI builders.
“Tesla can also be the chief in real-world AI,” Musk stated. “Tesla is forward of Google, Meta, OpenAI, anybody on real-world software program.”
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, has been in a public battle with the CEO of the premier generative AI developer. He not too long ago railed in opposition to Apple’s deal to place ChatGPT on its gadgets, saying they might be banned from his firms. Whereas he sued OpenAI for breach of contract in March, he withdrew his lawsuit with out touch upon Tuesday.
The CEO—who additionally leads SpaceX and co-founded Neuralink—individually based xAI, a generative AI firm that provides a chatbot known as Grok on X (aka Twitter).
Musk additionally touted his firm’s work on the {hardware} aspect.
“It is also price noting that Tesla is fairly good at chip design—the AI inference chip that was designed by Tesla is in automobiles,” Musk stated. “We had our {hardware} three AI inference [chip]; automobiles revamped the previous 12 months had the {hardware} 4, we have simply accomplished design on {hardware} 5, which we’re now calling AI 5.”
Musk additionally talked about Tesla’s work in robotics, highlighting its Optimus humanoid robots, which he stated are already working in Tesla’s manufacturing unit and workplaces.
“We’ve two Optimus robots in our Fremont manufacturing unit which are doing duties, which is taking cells off the road and inserting them in a transport container,” Musk stated. “We even have fairly a number of of those cruising round in our workplaces in Palo Alto.” The Tesla CEO stated he expects to see 1,000 Optimus robots working at Tesla.
Rival OpenAI additionally has robots available on the market by way of robotics startup 1X, wherein OpenAI has invested since 2022.
Musk stated he is bullish on the way forward for humanoid robotics, telling the viewers that whereas the market capitalization for autonomous transport is between $5 to $7 trillion, he estimated that Optimus’ market cap can be $25 trillion.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
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