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Uber will help finance drivers to get 100,000 EVs from BYD. They will target Europe and Latin America and will also expand to markets including the Middle East, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They will also work together to develop future BYD autonomous vehicles. Uber will provide drivers with pricing and financing for BYD cars ... Read more

Nvidia is writing new domain specific libraries to enable the rewriting of applications to use accelerated GPUs instead of CPUs. This can reduce the energy used by 20 times and speeding up the applications. Nvidia is enabling humanoid robotics with compute for the training, compute for the simulation and then compute for the robot.

Nvidia is enabling all knowing AI powered video analysis. This will enable the comprehension of everything happening in all video cameras. They describe how this will be good to enforce what should happen. It is also clear that this will enable Orwellian levels of control and monitoring. Powerful AI tools can be used for good ... Read more

GenAI is being used to improve the recommendation engines across all of the Facebook content. It will upgrade all of the processes and systems that we use. We will give it our intent and then it will return the results. AI will be improving to perform superior planning for better results. Meta is making an ... Read more

The SpaceX Super Heavy booster in the FAA report was analyzed with up to 35 engines and 103 million newtons of thrust. This would be just short of triple the thrust of the Saturn V. The SpaceX Starship was analyzed with up to 9 engines and 28.7 million newtons of thrust. The Saturn V had ... Read more

Crowdsourced data shows that Tesla FSD 12.5 is three to five times better than FSD (Full self driving supervised) 12.3.6. The FSD 12.5 is showing 744 miles between critical disengagement and 111 miles between any disengagement. The FSD critical disengagements improved 3.8 times from 194 miles with 12.3.6. There was also a 3.8 times improvement ... Read more

In China, 13.5k Tesla insurance registrations were reported for the week of July 22 to 28. The quarter is +49.6% QoQ and +18.9% vs. 24Q1 the best quarter after 4 weeks. YTD is at -1.8% YoY. Highest week of the quarter. $TSLA 🇨🇳BREAKING: Tesla China insured units <July 2024> 1-7 : 6,500 8-14 : 11,400 ... Read more

XAI is using about 150 Megawatts to power its 100,000 H100 liquid cooled AI training center in a few months. Nvidia H100s have about 4 petaflops of compute power. This would be 400 exaflops of peak computing. The next step after that will be about 300,000 Nvidia B200s with a CX8 network in the summer ... Read more

SpaceX Starship will be ready for its fifth orbital flight in about 2-3 weeks but the FAA giving approval and having the actual flight will likely slip to September. There is 60-80% chance that the new improved heat shield will fully work. There is a 50% chance of a successful catch of the booster on ... Read more

Runway has released Gen-3 Alpha Image to Video, a significant update that allows users to create videos from still images using text prompts for additional guidance. They raised a June 2023 funding round that valued Runway at $1.5 billion. This was an increase from its $500 million valuation in December 2022. They have about $237 ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.5.1 (full self driving supervised) starts wide release today. The hardware 3 version will be rolled out in about 10 days. FSD 12.5.1 starts wide release today. Please connect your Tesla to WiFi to receive the update. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2024 It takes considerable software effort to optimize the code ... Read more

Tesla AI5 chips will be volume production in 2026. Production version 1 of Teslabot will be produced in 2025. Currently Teslabot actuators are in the hand but the new version has actuators in the forearm. The cost of a super useful humanoid robot will be about $20,000. Tesla FSD for Cybertruck will be in mid-August. ... Read more