Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI —would it work?
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#6MAHK)
Image: Getty During last night's earnings call with investors, Elon Musk threw out an all-time late-night dorm room bong sesh of an idea: what if AWS, but for Tesla?
Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon's cloud service business. If they're just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)
There's a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference," Musk said. If you imagine the future perhaps where there's a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they've got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That's 100 gigawatts of...