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We're very serious people at Tesla. Join the fun, we're hiring folks interested in solving embodied AI across Robotaxi and Optimus.
Just to be clear, this is our prototype production line that we are using today for our current R&D efforts. The real scalable production line that will come online next year will not just be bigger, it will be completely different.
Cool work @peteflorence and @andyzengineer !
I disagree with @ylecun on this. We have a pretty good idea at Tesla on how we can make general humanoids a reality very quickly.
Funny anecdote: Yann was advising me to launch what became the first production vision based deep neural network at Google. His feedback: use convs, made a big difference. That neural network was classifying whether a patch of Street View image contained a street number in 2013. This + the one that read the street number that landed in 2014 automated hundreds of years of human labor. Fun times then and fun times now. Learned a lot from Yann back then, great mentor.
Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun offers a critical take on the humanoid robot boom.
Speaking at MIT, LeCun claimed the "big secret" of the industry is that current companies "have no idea" how to make their robots "smart enough to be generally useful."
He argues that while humanoids can be trained for narrow manufacturing tasks, a truly autonomous domestic robot is impossible without fundamental AI breakthroughs. For LeCun, this means moving beyond current generative models and toward "world model planning-type architectures"—systems that can learn to understand and predict the physical world.
The future of these billion-dollar startups, he says, depends entirely on this next wave of AI research.
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Wrote about some of the recent work from the excellent @Tesla_AI team. The same material was presented at the International Conference of Computer Vision this week.
The main purpose of sharing this content is to show the cutting-edge work that the team has been developing and attract more talented engineers to join the team.
Tesla is THE place to solve real-world robotics. The team is extremely talented, determined and motivated. The technology that is already developed is cutting-edge and the roadmap is exhilarating. The work done here will tremendously benefit all of humanity. Hence, we believe that this is the best place to work on AI on the entire planet currently. Join us and let's bring millions of intelligent, friendly and useful robots to life.
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Tesla is very serious about its world model efforts for both FSD and Optimus use cases. Our approach to solving general humanoid learning is very future proof: World Models + closed loop Reinforcement Learning
This is so cool. Tesla can take footage from its massive vehicle fleet and synthetically create new driving scenarios to test edge cases and improve safety for its self-driving software.
Tesla can also stitch footage from all 8 cameras into a fully drivable 3D environment—letting engineers steer, brake, and navigate as if they were on real roads, all powered by neural network–generated video streams.
• Can simulate 8 Tesla camera feeds simultaneously — fully synthetic.
• Used for testing, training, and reinforcement learning.
• Allows adversarial event injection (e.g., adding a pedestrian or vehicle cutting in).
• Enables replaying past failures to verify new model improvements.
• Can run in near real-time, letting testers “drive” inside a simulated world.
Cool collaboration between the Tesla and Disney teams. The future of entertainment will only get better from here on out.
He knew he was doing something risky: debating ideas peacefully. He still did it anyway. A true American Hero.
“When discourse ends, violence begins.” - Charlie Kirk
Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.
In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione.
The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.
This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.
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I disagree with certain things Charlie Kirk said but I thought he had some valid points sometimes and that his viewpoint was based on positive values and he wanted what's best for society. I thought he really contributed to a richer discourse in America.
I really hope that journalists in general and the democrats realize that the reason why this elderly white person has committed an act of terror is because of the discourse they are doing.
I'm French and came to America for its values, for its freedom, freedom in many aspects of life, including freedom of speech. This is the value I care most about: Freedom, above anything else.
I lived in San Francisco for a year and a half in 2012, the bastion of the left wing of thinking. I have never seen a city that says that they are the most inclusive, but is the least inclusive of all I've had the chance to live in. I left it because i felt so unwelcome as a tech worker, it was so obvious back then. But this is a sign of left ideology that has always been disrespectful to any other ideologies.
One of the main reasons I left France is because i felt it was too socialist, it had lost so much freedom because of it. I remember when i was in University every year around May-June, there would be this left extremist group that would block all the buildings in the University to block us from studying, and destroy many tables and chairs and doors by doing so. The teachers would do nothing because some of them were left extremists too and most of them from the left. When we engaged the protesters to get to our classes they told us: "we do this for you, you dont know whats happening to society". So much arrogance in the left way of thinking, to the point, at the extreme, of killing people because they think it's the right thing to do. This is sickening to my stomach.
Your ideology is not inclusive when you label everyone by an adjective, when you have to talk about race all the goddam time, when you think you are better than half of the country, and when you use violence, in any shape or form to defend it. And you create so much suffering by denying poor communities the safety they deserve with ideas like "defund the police", its so ridiculous the amount of death and pain this ideology is creating without itself realizing it.
Just look yourself in the mirror, please, for the sake of our children.
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