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Elon Musk's visit to China has resulted in approval in principle for FSD in China and a FSD mapping partnership with Baidu. Here's what you need to know: Tesla Inc. received in-principle approval to deploy driver-assistance system in China Tesla did manage to clear two of the most important hurdles: reaching a mapping ... Read more

The first ever Jetsuit races were held in Dubai about a month ago. Nextbigfuture has covered the Gravity Industry Jet suits for a few years. The jets and powerpack are attached to wearer with metal frames. They use five micro-gas turbines, two on each arm and one on the back. Their power is 1,050 bhp ... Read more

TSMC has to screw up to lose its lead in Semiconductors. Intel was in the lead for decades and then they screwed up badly and lost about 6+ years. Intel was about 2-4 years and now are trying to catch up from 4 years behind. TSMC Morris Chang is keeping it going. 30 minutes into ... Read more

TSMC introduced its System-on-Wafer (TSMC-SoWTM) technology, an innovative solution to bring revolutionary performance to the wafer level in addressing the future AI requirements for hyperscaler datacenters. At the TSMC 2024 North America Technology Symposium, they debuted the TSMC A16TM technology, featuring leading nanosheet transistors with innovative backside power rail solution for production in 2026, bringing ... Read more

Chuck Cook tests Tesla FSD 12.3.6 which has improved automatic parking assist. You can pick parking spots in front or behind you and the system will park the car. It can parallel park and parking perpendicular or at angles.The parking in FSD 12.3.6 is like a separate app that does not seem to be integrated ... Read more

LightSolver, creator of a new laser-based computing paradigm, announced a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system unleashes the power of 100 lasers to solve the toughest optimization problems, challenging the processing times of quantum and supercomputers. The LPU100's laser array represents 100 continuous variables, and can tackle problems with up to 120^100 combinations, ... Read more

Brian Wang and Randy Kirk recorded this discussion four days before the Q1 earnings call on Tuesday April 23. We predicted several aspects of the earnings call but also post earnings developments. This was recorded at the same time as the reaction video to the insightful BG2 Pod that Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley made. ... Read more

Tesla has launched Enhanced Autopilot subscriptions in China. It is unclear if this is actually what is called FSD (full self driving) in the USA. 699 yuan/month ($99 USD) 1,399 yuan for 3 months ($66 USD/month) NEWS: Tesla has launched Enhanced Autopilot subscriptions in China. 699 yuan/month ($99 USD) 1,399 yuan for ... Read more

1. SanctuaryaI unveiled the seventh generation of its general purpose robot Phoenix. The latest generation robot and its AI control system, CarbonTM, draw even closer to that of a person, with wide ranging improvements to both the hardware and AI software. The announcement comes less than 12 months after Sanctuary AI's sixth generation robot. The ... Read more

Nextbigfuture at substack has an in depth article on China's Molten Salt Nuclear energy projects. China is starting the operation of its 2 megawatt molten salt prototype reactor in 2024. They are progressively scaling up to 10 MW reactors, 100 MW and then a 168 MWe modular reactor around 2030. The full substack article is ... Read more

According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. pic.twitter.com/S6f17Rr6zy - Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) April 26, 2024 We have known that fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will ... Read more

San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 25th, 2024, CyberNewsWire The telecom company AeroNet Wireless announced the launch of its new 10Gbps speed Internet plan, marking an important landmark for the telecommunications sector in Puerto Rico. We have invested millions to expand and strengthen our network, demonstrating our commitment to launching Puerto Rico to the next level ... Read more

Billionaire investor and fund manager Ron Baron describes his ride in what seems to be the unreleased version of Tesla FSD. Waymo are $250,000 each. Ron was in California on Monday last week and was taken on a ride with the latest version of Tesla FSD. He says this is the moment for [supervised] autonomous ... Read more

SCTL has retracted the claimed full levitation video and the claim of full levitation. They say it was from the Lorentz force. A lone researcher on the team fooled himself and uploaded the video without checking with other members of the team. SCT lab : I apologize for causing confusion. The last video of sample ... Read more

Fisker warned investors in SEC filing it could seek bankruptcy protection within 30 days, as cash reserves continue to shrink. Fisker missed an $8.4 million interest payment on March 15 and has not been able to make it in the 30-day grace period since that date. The EV maker had already idled production in Austria ... Read more

New video from SCTL Korea room temperature superconductor experimenters claimed to shows a very strong full levitation effect. Full levitation would be evidence of the Meissner effect found only in superconductors. I have shown how the levitation evidence was originally partial levitation. Critics says partial levitation can be from diamagnetics or even some iron contamination. ... Read more

Venture Capital legends Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley gave great insights about Tesla robotaxi and Uber ridesharing on the BG2 pod. Brad Gerstner founded the $10 billion Altimeter Capital fund. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in San Francisco, California. Gurley has led investments in and holds board ... Read more

Tesla revealed a lot about all of their existing and planned artificial intelligence related products and services in the Q1 2024 earnings call. Elon talked about offering FSD/robotaxi as a hybrid Airbnb and Uber model. Tesla will operating the fleet and the network. The enduser will be able to control their participation in the robotaxi ... Read more

Tesla is speeding up new car products and modifying current factories with aspects of the next generation unboxed factory processes. The partial updated factory processes will not enable the full full 50% cost reduction previously described for the unboxed process but could see 20-30% cost reductions. This would enable a smoother transition for vehicles volume ... Read more

Tesla has updated their future vehicle line-up to accelerate the launch of new models ahead of their previously communicated start of production in the second half of 2025. These new vehicles, including more affordable models, will utilize aspects of the next generation platform as well as aspects of the current platforms, and will be able ... Read more

Tesla has been investing in the hardware and software ecosystems necessary to achieve vehicle autonomy and a ride-hailing service. They believe a scalable and profitable autonomy business can be realized through a vision-only architecture with end-to-end neural networks, trained on billions of miles of real-world data. Tesla had over 35,000 H100 at the end of ... Read more

Ate-a-Pi has a weird claim that Mark Zuckerberg does not believe in AI compute scaling delivering better performance. There is also a claim about energy constraints for data centers and AI chips maximizing on performance per watt. Zuckerberg says that the exponential curves are still scaling. He says no ones how long that scaling continues. ... Read more

Future versions of Tesla FSD will likely merge with XAI Grok. While Elon Musk has expressed concerns about building too much of his new AI ideas into Tesla unless he has 25% voting control, the need to make a competitive AI will force Tesla FSD to work with XAI Grok. This can be structured in ... Read more

The Princeton Physics Lab has built a Stellarator nuclear fusion reactor prototype using permanent magnets. This is a scientific first that enables mostly off the shelf magnet for simple and low cost experiments to test new concepts for future fusion power plants. It does not generate net energy, but it has some nuclear processes and ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says some suffering is good so people learn resilience. Resilience is the key for long term success. Do you agree with Jensen? There are of course alternative views like things implied by the fictional character Yoda.

Grok-1.5V is competitive with existing frontier multimodal models in a number of domains, ranging from multi-disciplinary reasoning to understanding documents, science diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. Grok has capabilities in understanding our physical world. Grok outperforms its peers in our new RealWorldQA benchmark that measures real-world spatial understanding. For all datasets below, they evaluate Grok ... Read more

Elon Musk reasserts that Tesla FSD 12.4 will be another big improvement and will be released soon. Tesla FSD 12.4 will have the driving data learned from another billion miles of driving from the one month free trial for 2 million users. The new driving data will be from many new drivers who were inexperienced ... Read more

Dr. Charles Buhler and Exodus Technologies claims that systems with electrostatic pressure differences or electrostatic divergent fields gives systems with a center of mass with non-zero force component (aka generate movement). Buhler is NASA's subject matter expert on electrostatics. They want to move to demo the system in orbit. These kinds of claims are controversial ... Read more

I talked with Herbert Ong about Tesla compute and how I believed Tesla had 100,000 H100 ordered. I only wondered if they were installed and operating. I also told Herbert that I expected large Nvidia B200 orders by Tesla and XAI so that they each add another 800 Exaflops of compute by the end of ... Read more

I have used the new open source Meta Llama3 AI model. It can generate images and you can edit the images by asking for changes to previously generated images. The system is faster and easier to use than many of the other image generators. It is pretty good at math and coding. It was able ... Read more

Tesla has made rapid progress with the full self driving system after they completed version 12 of the AI. They have replaced the coded rules for a complete system of neural networks to control perception, navigation and planning. Tesla has announced that they will unveil the robotaxi on August 8, 2024. However, it is now ... Read more

Israeli drones have hit western Iran. Explosions were heard in the city of Isfahan prompting commercial flights to divert from their routes. Explosions were heard near the Iranian city of Isfahan early Friday as Israel reportedly launched a heavily anticipated reprisal strike for an Iranian attack on Israel days earlier, defying international pressure to stand ... Read more

Youtuber, Internet of bugs, broke down the Devin Upwork video frame by frame. He shows what Devin was supposed to do, what it actually managed to do instead, and how bad a job of that it did. Devin was not given the right instructions by the Cognition Employee. It was supposed to write instructions for ... Read more

DARPA's Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program had the first-ever in-air tests of AI algorithms autonomously flying a fighter jet against a human-piloted fighter jet in within-visual-range combat scenarios (aka dogfighting). The General Dynamics X-62 VISTA (Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft") is an experimental aircraft, derived from the F-16D Fighting Falcon, which was modified as ... Read more

Llama 3 is Meta's latest generation of models that has state-of-the art performance and efficiency for openly available LLMs. Meta AI is available online for free. The small 7B model beats Mistral 7B and Gemma 7B. The 70B beats Claude 3 Sonnet (closed source Anthropic model) and competes against Gemini Pro 1.5 (closed source model ... Read more

SpaceX and Elon Musk are choosing to go to the moon. The moon orbiting and moon landing missions should be within this decade and they will make a permanently manned moonbase as well. In the video, I describe the multiple moon related missions that SpaceX has and how easy it would be for SpaceX to ... Read more

Today, Intel has built the world's largest neuromorphic system. It is code-named Hala Point, this large-scale neuromorphic system, initially deployed at Sandia National Laboratories, utilizes Intel's Loihi 2 processor. It is aimed at supporting research for future brain-inspired artificial intelligence (AI), and tackles challenges related to the efficiency and sustainability of today's AI. Hala Point ... Read more

Reka Core is a new LLM that is competitive with OpenAI GPT4 and Anthropic Claude 3. Reka Core can identify an African Elephant from a picture by looking at its ears. It was a model created by a team of twenty people. Reka, a California-based AI startup, appears to be ready to go head-to-head with ... Read more

Boston Dynamics has released a video unveiling their next generation humanoid robot. It is a fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. Atlas demonstrates efforts to develop the next generation of robots with the mobility, perception, and intelligence needed to be commonplace in our lives. The electric Atlas has been developed with advanced control ... Read more

Las Vegas, United States, April 17th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Zero Knowledge Networking vendor shrugs off firewall flaw In the wake of the recent disclosure of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400) affecting a leading firewall solution, Xiid Corporation reminds organizations that Xiid SealedTunnel customers remain secure. This latest vulnerability, currently unpatched and rated 10/10 on the CVSS (Common ... Read more

There are exclusive articles for paid subscribers on the Nextbigfuture Substack. The history of human colonization tells us what is needed for a future sustainable human interstellar colonization. What is needed for Artificial Superintelligence. Here is an overview of what is needed for AGI and ASI level AI. I will briefly review some key concepts ... Read more

I did a video with Brighter with Herbert, Herbert Ong. I explained why the chart from last year showing Tesla going to 100 Exaflops of compute in October 2024 is out of date. Elon Musk said that both XAI and Tesla had over 30,000 H100 chip equivalents. Nvidia H100 chips each have petaflops of compute. ... Read more

The various Claude 3 models are ranking very closely to the OpenAI GPT 4 AI models. Claude is able to understand images. I uploaded the picture of a SpaceX Starship refueling in space. Claude Sonnet described its understanding as follows. The image depicts two futuristic-looking spacecraft or rockets in space, seemingly in orbit around the ... Read more

Elon discussed SpaceX plans to send a fleet of 1000-1200 Starships every two years to Mars. SpaceX Mars fleet operations would have huge challenges. The plan is to launch 1.5 million tons to orbit every two years. They would then send 250,000 tons to Mars. If every Mars-bound SpaceX Starship can take 250 tons of ... Read more

Washington DC, United States, April 16th, 2024, CyberNewsWire In a digital age where information is the new currency, the recent global hack has once again highlighted the urgent need for enhanced cybersecurity measures. The breach was identified as Midnight Blizzard, from the Russian state-sponsored actor known as NOBELIUM. It has affected Millions of individuals and ... Read more

First Light Fusion is developing an inertial fusion with a pulsed process. They fire physical projectiles at high speeds like 40 kilometers per second to generate fusion OR they may use high-power lasers to generate the fusion. They are working on methods with the targets and other systems to amplify the pressures generated and increase ... Read more

Tesla is unveiling the Robotax on August 8, 2024 there is an ongoing ramp of the FSD (full self driving) software. What do we no know and not know about this rapidly changing situation? This is all happening as Tesla's sales growth is between two growth waves". Tesla has cut over 10% of its staff ... Read more

The direct Iranian missile attack did not do direct damage to Israel. However, it has opened the door to direct military action between Iran and Israel. Iran and Israel are 620 miles apart. Iran is almost 2.4 times the land area of Texas. It is slightly larger than the state of Alaska. Iran's dimensions are ... Read more

Elon Musk sent out a memo to all Tesla staff last night. Over the years, we have grown rapidly with multiple factories scaling around the globe. With this rapid growth there has been duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas. As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is ... Read more

Would everyone switch to electric cars if good cars with good range could be made for much less than $10,000? What technology could enable those prices?