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Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023.Jose Luis Magana | APGoogle terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against labor conditions and the company's contract to provide the ...

Google employees protest in New York on April 17th, 2024.Courtesy: No Tech For ApartheidNine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office.The arre...

Microsoft is doing very well by buying OpenAI. OpenAI is making money now. AI Models are becoming commoditized. In the long run, there seems to be a race to the bottom on pricing. Open Source AI models like Meta could be used to become the Platform. All of the development happens on your platform. If ... Read more

Nextbigfuture has launched a new substack. [https://nextbigfuture.substack.com/] There is absolutely no ads on nextbigfuture substack. There is unique longer articles that are exclusive to nextbigfuture substack subscribers. The regular nextbigfuture.com site will continue. There is also the nextbigfuture youtube channel. I thank all of my readers and supporters who will get information from this regular ... Read more

Grok-1.5V is XAI’s first-generation multimodal model. In addition to its strong text capabilities, Grok can now process a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. Grok-1.5V will be available soon to our early testers and existing Grok users. Capabilities Grok-1.5V is competitive with existing frontier multimodal models in a number ... Read more

Tesla FSD is rapidly improving and seems to be creating level 4 self driving before our eyes. It is something that is difficult for many to believe and accept. AI systems have a history of not working for a long time and then having improvement that seems sudden to human observers. Once an AI gets ... Read more

Sanctuary AI, a company on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots, has announced a strategic partnership with global mobility technology company Magna. Sanctuary’s CTO Suzanne Gildert explained their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is ... Read more

There are about six major capabilities that Tesla still needs to add to FSD based upon capability checklists. Most of the capabilities will need refinement so that they are performed well every time. The six capabilities are recognize hand signals, drive in reverse, avoid pot holes and low road obstacles, don’t drive in the blind ... Read more

The Unitree H1 Humanoid robot can outrun a human being. In this video we review the Unitree H1 robot and other humanoid robots and briefly consider the expected impacts on our world.

Brad Gerstner at Altimeter Capital describes how the large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT could replace Google Internet Search. The cost per llm query is about 10 to 100 times more than the internet search. However, by consistently getting the cost for LLM query down to 1 to 2 cents then those queries would be ... Read more

Jensen Huang described how the $1 trillion in current data centers will see another $2 trillion of AI accelerated data centers added over the next few years. Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital, describes the impact of adding those AI data centers on energy and computer chips.

The number of Nvidia H100 and other Nvidia chips that an AI company represents the AI compute resources of that company. Elon indicated that a recent chart showing Meta leading on the GPU count and Tesla trailing at 10,000 G100 GPUs. Microsoft and OpenAI would also have higher GPU counts. It is unclear why Microsoft ... Read more

There are many who believe that years of failure or limited success for Tesla FSD and other robotaxi projects are evidence for their belief that it will take more years from today for Tesla FSD to achieve robotaxi level. Chess Computer Programs Chess programs were under serious development for decades before they finally succeeded in ... Read more

Devin is an AI that was used on the SWE-bench, a challenging benchmark that asks agents to resolve real-world GitHub issues found in open source projects like Django and scikit-learn. Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues end-to-end, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%. Even when given the exact files to edit, the best ... Read more

The expert consensus is that a human-like machine intelligence could emerge by 2059, but what if we could do it in less than half the time? The post The Evolution of Intelligence appeared first on Visual Capitalist.

Tesla FSD pricing and licensing strategies for maximum adoption. 1. Allow OEM to integrate it into any car for free or at cost. Car owner pays for FSD license 2. Active safety & basics comes free 3. Leverage Supercharger deals. Offer same pricing as Tesla cars for EVs that integrate FSD hardware & share data ... Read more

Investors close to Elon Musk are in talks to help xAI raise $3 billion in a round that would value the artificial-intelligence startup at $18 billion. The venture-capital firm Gigafund and Steve Jurvetson, a prominent Musk backer and co-founder of another venture firm, are among the backers considering investing in the round, the people said. ... Read more

Grok-1.5 is XAI latest model capable of long context understanding and advanced reasoning. Grok-1.5 will be available to our early testers and existing Grok users on the 𝕏 platform in the coming days. Grok 1.5 will be close to GPT4 capability. Grok 2 is in training and reportedly better than GPT4 and Claude 3. One ... Read more

June 27, 2023 Elon and Tesla realize that FSD version 12 would be good enough to get off beta. Version 12 won’t be beta — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023 March 11, 2024 Said FSD Beta 12.3 is such a big release it should be called Version 13. Elon: FSD Beta 12.3 is such ... Read more

Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil the robotaxi on Aug 8, 2024. Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2024 What does this mean? It means Elon and Tesla are super confident about FSD. It gives more credibility to the Tesla Korean engineers who work on FSD saying that Tesla would ... Read more

Reuters had an article that claimed that Tesla was cancelling the low cost $25k Model 2 car and going all in robotaxi. Elon tweeted out that Reuters in lying (again). Reuters is lying (again) — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2024 The Reuter BS FUD lie about cancelling the Model 2 made no sense. There ... Read more

Tesla FSD videos where the FSD system drove over a small curb to avoid a truck and over dirt where there was construction on the regular road. The Tesla FSD system has intelligent collision avoidance. Tesla Autopilot lead, Ashok Elluswamy, says that Whether some surface is drivable or not is all contextual. We typically don’t ... Read more

Tesla FSD is improving rapidly with FSD 12.3.X going to all Tesla buyers in the North America. FSD 12.4 should be out this month and it is reported to be substantially better. There were reports two weeks ago from some Tesla engineers who believed that FSD would reach robotaxi level by July 2024. There was ... Read more

In the first quarter, Tesla produced over 433,000 vehicles and delivered approximately 387,000 vehicles. They deployed 4,053 MWh of energy storage products in Q1, the highest quarterly deployment yet. The delivery numbers were bad for Tesla in Q1. There were fires in Berlin from ecoterrorists and delays in the supply chain because of Persian Gulf ... Read more