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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?

RocketStar has announced the first successful demonstration of their nuclear fusion-enhanced pulsed plasma FireStarTM Drive. They have enhanced electric drive space propulsion. Electric propulsion drives create small amounts of thrust but are significantly more fuel-efficient than conventional chemical rockets. Electric propulsion are ion and hall effect drives. They are like the tortoise to the chemical ... Read more

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

There is radar tracking all of the airplane, drone and missile activity over the middle east. This is related to airplanes, drones and missiles from Iran to Israel. There is also US and Israel military plane activity.

Iran claims to have launched a wave of missiles against Israel and the above is a photo taken which shows a missile flying over Iraq to Israel. There are reports on Telegram and X of a plan by Iran's QUD (foreign militia's in Syria, Lebanon - Hezbollah) and Iraq to attack in waves.

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

Iran has launched about ten or so hundreds of drones over Iraq towards Israel. They are drones with small propeller planes. There are now more missiles. These will likely get shotdown by Israel. However, is this the start something? It is weird and there is a lot of uncertainty. This is not an actual effective ... Read more

Tesla has has officially lowered the monthly FSD subscription price to $99/month (from $199/month). This means it would be $1200 per year. If 50% adopt then that would be the $600 per car or an increase of 7.5% in profits. This should massively increase adoption which increases the amount of data training and rate of ... 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.

Tel Aviv, Israel, April 10th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Cyber GRC software company Cypago has announced a new automation solution for artificial intelligence (AI) governance, risk management and compliance. This includes implementation of NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, the newest AI security and governance frameworks. With more and more companies integrating new AI tools into their ... Read more

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 SpaceX Raptor engines are becoming far more powerful and should reach over 330 tons of force while not needing a heat shield. Removing the need for a heat shield will lower the overall mass and increase the thrust to weight ratio.

The Lunar Starship will have landing legs, but no heat shield and no flaps. There is no The Lunar Starships would only dock with tankers and would not land back on Earth. SpaceX will build a permanently manned moonbase.

One of the Korean researchers working on room temperature superconductors shows a sample with some possible magnetic locking effects. The phenomenon occurred when he found and cut out a part of the sample that was felt to have strong diamagnetism. He does not know if the effect can be explained by Lenz's law. He thinks ... Read more

As the crypto market has evolved in recent years, more and more projects have been actively looking to devise simple offerings that can allow developers create their own decentralized applications (dApps) with the touch of a button. In this regard, a project called Andromeda has garnered a lot of mainstream traction over the past year, ... Read more

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

Elon Musk says the Long term cost of a single Starship launch can reach $2 million. The reusable payload of 200 tonnes would mean $10 per kilogram for launch cost. If engines were further improved to 250 tons of reusable payload the cost to orbit would be $8 per kilogram. Nextbigfuture notes that sending only ... Read more

Next month (May 2024), SpaceX will launch the fourth orbital launch test of the Super Heavy Starship. It will try to land a virtual tower. Elon thinks a successful Mechazilla tower catch is 80-90% for this year. IF that is successful then the fifth flight will try to land on the actual mechazilla tower. 00:00 ... Read more

INRS's Energie Materiaux Telecommunications Research Centre has developed a new ultrafast camera system that can capture up to 156.3 trillion frames per second with astonishing precision. For the first time, 2D optical imaging of ultrafast demagnetization in a single shot is possible. This

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 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

I talked with Tim Ventura about technology. We discussed SpaceX, teslabot and nuclear power among other topics.

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

Two longevity (antiaging) nonprofits - SENS Research Foundation and Lifespan.io (Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation) - have unveiled plans to merge, upon completion of regulatory approvals. Founded in 2009, SENS Research Foundation, has funded cutting-edge research into the science of aging and regenerative medicine. Lifespan.io is a dynamic hub for advancing the frontier of longevity research. ... Read more

Helicity Space, a commercial space company developing in-space propulsion and power technology based on fusion power, announced an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin. This latest raise from Lockheed Martin Ventures comes on the heels of a $5 million seed round of Helicity Space funding from investors including Airbus ... 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

Portland, Oregon, April 4th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Center Identity, a pioneering cybersecurity company, is excited to unveil its patented secret location authentication, reshaping how businesses manage workforce digital identity. This proprietary technology enables users to authenticate their identity using a secret location selected on a map. The benefits of this novel approach to digital identity management ... Read more

Tehran and its Lebanon-based proxy blame Israel for attack in Damascus that killed Quds force leaders. The airstrike in Syria killed Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who led the Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon and Syria until 2016. It also killed Zahedi's deputy, Gen. Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi, and five other ... Read more

Silver Spring, United States / Maryland, April 3rd, 2024, CyberNewsWire The Leading Company for Securing Access Between Workloads Recognized for the Aembit Workload IAM Platform Aembit, the Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) Company, has been named one of the Top 10 Finalists for the RSA ConferenceTM 2024 Innovation Sandbox contest for its platform that ... Read more

Vinod Khosla starts with a 30,000 foot view of this critical point in history, and how it differs from previous technological phase changes. With his 40-year history sponsoring technological disruption, he will discuss the origins of change and innovation, and lay out his predictions for how AI will upend every sector of GDP, and how ... 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

Washington, DC, United States, April 2nd, 2024, CyberNewsWire Authentic8, provider of the leading OSINT research platform Silo for Research, today launched their Silo Shield Program to enhance online security for high-risk communities. Also today, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched a webpage listing free tools and services to strengthen defenses of high-risk ... Read more

7 Days ago 20% of the North America Tesla customer base had 12.X FSD and now about half have the free FSD 12.X trial. If this pace is continued then it would be another two more weeks before everyone gets the free trial. Ashok is the director of Autopilot Software at Tesla. If he's saying ... Read more

Tesla FSD Tracker crowdsources data on the Tesla FSD driver experiences. They are now recording 448 Miles between critical disengagements for Tesla FSD 12.3 Supervised. This is over three times better than the best results for any Tesla FSD v11.X and it is over four times better than any Tesla FSD v10.X. The rate of ... Read more

Los Angeles, United States, April 2nd, 2024, Cyberwire Today, Congressman Eric Swalwell, CA-14, announced that he has partnered with Wolfsbane.ai to help prevent his 2024 election campaign content from being used to create AI clones and deepfakes. Wolfsbane.ai will use its patent-pending technology to encode Rep. Swalwell's campaign videos and audio with a countermeasure that ... Read more

The all-treatments group is still taking roughly twice as long as the all-controls group (starting from 19 months old, when the experiment began) to get down to a given survival percentage in males. The all treatments female mice are lasting 50% longer than controls. It'll still be a few months before we can start to ... Read more

BYD sold 300,114 passenger BEVs in the first quarter of 2024, up 13.4 percent year-on-year but down 42.99 percent from the fourth quarter last year. Tesla is expected to announce 405,000 to 430,000 sales deliveries for the first quarter of 2024. Tesla was likely ahead of BED for the March, 2024 monthly sales. BYD sold ... Read more

Tesla had 17.6% gross profit margins in Q4 2024 which was about $252 million per percent of gross margin. Tesla has released FSD 12.3.3 Supervised to all North American Tesla owners. If they were buy or subscribe to Tesla FSD and we converted monthly subscriptions were equalized to a purchase (starting an average 5 year ... Read more

Elon Musk has targeted an orbital launch cost of $10/kg for Starship, with propellant costs accounting for roughly one-third. Orbital launch cost would be about four times more than the cost of point to point on Earth rocket delivery costs. Point to point rocket delivery would only need the Starship upper stage. There are only ... Read more