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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

Chamath has the vision of rebuilding the $1.5 trillion global software stack with many lean 10-20 person companies powered with AI. His vision is to have the team create the product requirements document in extreme detail and feeding it into an AI to build it. This will start working over the next year or so. ... Read more

I had a discussion on Randy Kirk's youtube channel about the stunning implications of Tesla Real World AI, integration with XAI Grok superintelligence and Tesla energy. The world will be massively changing over the next few years and the foundation for the changes are already moving into place. The changes with AI and humanoid bot ... Read more

The SpaceX team submitted our report to the FAA regarding Falcon 9's launch anomaly, including likely cause and associated corrective actions. The FAA grounded the SpaceX Falcon 9 after an in space failure of the Falcon 9 upper stage. There was a liquid oxygen leak. The SpaceX team submitted our report to the FAA regarding ... Read more

Assuming the board of $TSLA approves @elonmusk proposal to buy $5 billion worth of XAI, then Tesla shareholder should vote to approve it. Here is why. @elonmusk told us that the top AI people wanted to work in a focused startup like XAI. They did not want to be in a larger corporation. This can ... Read more

Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics. This is a huge advance for AI to make big progress with better reasoning and better math. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) with advanced mathematical reasoning has the potential to unlock new frontiers in science and technology. We've made great progress building AI systems ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.5.X will add Actually Smart Summon in about a month. It could be in the 2-4 week timeframe to get 12.5.3 released and then widely released. Tesla FSD 12.5 is showing some reverse driving for an automatic park. $TSLASuper AutoPark! https://t.co/2FZ5W4GQBi - Tsla Chan (@Tslachan) July 25, 2024 Tesla FSD Tracker only has ... Read more

SpaceX is building a second Mechazilla launch tower and has stacked two of the nine modules. The launch tower is about 469 feet tall or about 45 stories. Each of the modules is about 30 feet tall. Felix Schlang and the What About It? Youtube channels have excellent coverage of the second SpaceX tower. The ... Read more

A new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top global public health and development threats. It is estimated that bacterial AMR was ... Read more

Google is increasing investments in AI. CEO says the risk is underinvesting versus over investing. Capex for Q2 for Alphabet as a whole was $13 billion, though Porat notes the majority of this was driven by investment in technical infrastructure - largely servers, followed by data centers. Google mixes in AI results with search results. ... Read more

While the Tesla Q2 Earnings had earning per share weakness, the truly important news is that Tesla's AI and Energy future was confirmed. The Megapack factory in China will expand to over 80 GWh per year of capacity and not just 40 GWh. Tesla Megapack have software that differentiate them versus their Chinese competitors. There ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.5 (Full self driving) is proving to be another major leap in capability. Elon has said that 12.6 should be able to get to one intervention per year of driving. This would mean 15,000 to 20,000 miles per intervention if this is correct. Elon talked about the possibility of having drives without the ... Read more

Elon Musk indicates taht FSD (Full Self Driving) version 12.5.3 will be the version of FSD 12.5 that will go to wide release. FSD 12.5 is getting reviews as a major step change in smoothness, reduced interventions, speed and confidence in supervised autonomous driving. Still some issues with this release, but you can see the ... Read more

Elon Musk emphasized the opportunity for distributed AI inference using the fleet of Tesla cars and the future fleet of Teslabots. I tried to characterize the details of distributed AI Inference with the future fleet of Tesla cars and Teslabots. I have a forecast of the numbers of car and bots in each year and ... Read more

For 70 years, humanity has tried listening for radio emissions coming from other star systems. This is like sitting at home and waiting for a phone call that may never come or trying to hear noises from around our own singular farm house. Avi Loeb thinks a next step is to look around our yard. ... Read more

NASA has given answers to those who have asked to preserve all or parts of the International Space Station into a museum. NASA said disassembling and returning to Earth the complete modules and large components that comprise the International Space Station was not feasible. The space station has not been certified to operate with the ... Read more

Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals the top AI models when it comes to state-of-the-art capabilities in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use, and multilingual translation. With the release of the 405B model, Meta supercharges innovation-with unprecedented opportunities for growth and exploration. They believe the latest generation of Llama will ... Read more

Tesla missed slightly on earnings per share. Financials improved but not as much as hoped. EPS was (non-GAAP) was 52 cents per share. There was not positive new guidance on car volumes. This is causing the shares to trade down. The restructuring charges for the layoffs were about $280 million more than expected at $622 ... Read more

There is a new proposed definition of planet that works far better for objects in other solar systems. In our solar system, objects are close enough that we can check the orbit and see if has been cleared of other objects. This is problematic if we can only infer rough properties of what could be ... Read more

Tesla Q2 earnings call is today after trading. What will happen with the most important financial qiesitons? Will they beat market expectations on earnings per share? Will they beat on margin? Will good guidance be given by Elon Musk? Tesla investors must watch this before earnings. Here are the other Tesla community forecasts. I will ... Read more

The early reviews for the Tesla FSD (Full Self driving supervised driver assist) are stellar. The reports are the at it is super smooth, great turns, great speed control and it feels dramatically improved. Whole Mars says this ain't just some normal update something is very different. FSD 12.5 first drive impressions: by far ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.5 (full self driving - complete driver assistance) has begun to rollout to Tesla employees. The previous FSD 12.2.X and 12.3.X typically end up fully rolled out after about 2 weeks. However, 12.4.X versions never reached more than 5% of the North American fleet. The Tesla FSD 12.5 does not appear to have ... Read more

People have proposed saving the International Space Station. They think it cost about $200 billion to build it. However, most of those costs were the $1-2 billion spent for each Space shuttle launch. Those are sunk costs. It now costs an additional $1.3 billion per year to keep the Space Station operating. The parts were ... Read more

Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla FSD 12.5 is in final testing and that it will be a vast improvement over FSD 12.3.6 and 12.4.3. Elon confirmed that there are important design improvements being made to the Cybercab which will be unveiled at a delayed event. Warren Redlich and Brian Wang discuss FSD 12.5 working with ... Read more

Elon Musk said Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026. This should mean hundreds and perhaps thousands of Teslabots in Tesla factories next year. There are handful Teslabots in use in Tesla factories now. There should then ... Read more

If Large Language Models debate their answers they can reach better answers. A complementary approach to improve language responses where multiple language model instances propose and debate their individual responses and reasoning processes over multiple rounds to arrive at a common final answer. The findings indicate that this approach significantly enhances mathematical and strategic reasoning ... Read more

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-4o mini is a step towards intelligence too cheap to meter. 15 cents per million input tokens, 60 cents per million output tokens, MMLU of 82%, and fast. Most importantly, OpenAI thinks people will really, really like using the new model. towards intelligence too cheap to meter:https://t.co/76GEqATfws 15 cents per ... Read more

Vast is a startup building commercial in-space habitation, research, and manufacturing facilities to serve NASA, ESA, DLR, and other government space agencies around the globe, driving demand for affordable and sustainable space transportation to LEO. Founded in 2021, Vast is building Haven-1, the world's first private space station slated to launch no earlier than August ... Read more

SpaceX will make a giant version of the Dragon spacecraft with 6 times the propellant and four times the power for a precise and controlled deorbit of the space station. There will be 46 Draco engines on the upgraded vehicle. It will be almost two vehicles in one and will be ready in 2028. It ... Read more

Inhibition of IL-11 signalling extends mammalian healthspan and lifespan- Nature Female Il11-deleted mice are protected from age-associated obesity, frailty, and metabolic decline. Male mice lives 22.5% longer and female mice 25% longer. The effects were similar to rapamycin but had less negative effects on liver and other organs when rapamycin is used for extended times. ... Read more

Investors are not properly calculating the profits from increased Tesla Cybertruck sales in 2025. Tesla will be making 200,000 to 300,000 Cybertrucks in 2025 and they will each sell for twice as much as a model Y. They will have three times the profit at $24000 vs $8000 for a model Y. Megapack Energy profits ... Read more

Reporters visited Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory and provided the following information. Giga Shanghai is in full operation. Save 100 meters of production line through the use of vertical lifts. Four workshops are connected and manufactured parts can be transferred within the workshop. Fully automated production has been achieved by 95%, and the ... Read more

A billion computer s worldwide needs to be rebooted in fail mode and have a driver manually. This was a mistake by Crowdstrike, where a bad update of Windows was performed. The fix is to boot in safe mode and remove the bad csagent.sys or C-00000291*.sys drivers and then restart. You will need to have ... Read more

Websim.ai is an AI-powered platform that allows users to generate and explore a simulated version of the internet. It uses advanced AI models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o to create interactive websites, visualizations, and functional code in response to user prompts. Users can sign in with their Google or Discord accounts and input prompts ... Read more

A popular youtube channel, boostedboiz, is repairing a wrecked Tesla Cybertruck. The Cybertruck was t-boned from the side. Many people have been concerned that the steel shell and other steel frame structures of the Tesla Cybertruck would make it difficult and expensive to repair. This video series will go into the details of how a ... Read more

The technology of Elon Musk (Musktech) companies will be getting powerful combination products over the next 12 months. The technology products from each individual company are already . Driver assist operators validating Tesla FSD 12.5 observed the vehicles were using a SpaceX Starlink mini. Neuralink can connect to devices that use Bluetooth so it could ... Read more

Elon Musk confirms that Cybertruck FSD will be released with FSD 12.5. FSD 12.5 finally merges city and highway driving code. Highway driving has been handled by autopilot. Tesla Autopilot driver assist has one collision every 7.6 million miles which is about 8 times safer than Tesla without Autopilot activated and about 13 times safer ... Read more

Chuck Cook has drone video of Tesla FSD 12.5 supervised making many perfect unprotected left turns. Tesla FSD is the Full Self Driving product which is a driver assist system the human driver must supervise the driving system. As of Tesla FSD F12.3.6, human drivers will not need to touch the steering wheel. It is ... Read more

While general awareness surrounding the term artificial intelligence (AI) has undoubtedly grown over the past couple of years - as highlighted by its rising number of Google searches - it is still difficult to put into numerical terms the impact this technology has had across a myriad of industries. Searches related to the term artificial ... Read more

In response to ever rising cyber threats, Resonance Security has launched Harmony. The state-of-the-art solution efficiently monitors and protects Web2 and Web3 applications against increasing risks from fraudulent users that take advantage of vulnerabilities. The Big Factors While Web3 has traditionally lacked the robust cybersecurity seen in the more established, centralized Web2 environment, it is ... Read more

SpaceX has a new version of the SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy Booster. The version 2 has different heat shield and flap placement. The Starship and the Super Heavy booster have both been made longer. In the picture above, the version one Starship nosecone is on the left and the new version is on the ... Read more

Tesla has filed four new trademark applications for four different pieces of candy. Official candy names in the filings: Supercharged Gummies Cyberberry Mango Bolt Dog Mode Chill NEWS: Tesla has filed four new trademark applications for four different pieces of candy. Official candy names in the filings: Supercharged Gummies Cyberberry Mango ... Read more

Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. Elon also said he will be moving the headquarters out of San Francisco California to Austin Texas. This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and ... Read more

Article by Steve LeVine of The Information suggests that Tesla is preparing to validate it's engineering approach for high volume manufacturing of a new version of the 4680 by September. That involves: 1) Finally implementing a dry coated cathode 2) Scaling up a fix to an issue where the jelly roll would collapse into the ... Read more

Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla FSD 12.5 is in final testing after Tesla cars were spotted testing at Chuck Cooks unprotected left turn. Elon confirmed that there are important design improvements being made to the Cybercab which will be unveiled at a delayed event. Brian Wang talks with Herbert Ong about the developments that clarify ... Read more

Elon confirms Tesla test drivers are validating FSD 12.5. This means a new FSD version is soon to be released. Chuck Cook is a famous Tesla FSD tester. He has an unprotected left turn near his house which is a challenging and critical test of any self driving system. When Chuck sees Tesla FSD cars ... Read more

Due to skyrocketing prices, the real estate market has become increasingly inhospitable to prospective homeowners worldwide. To put things into perspective, since the start of 2020, property prices in the United States alone have surged by 47.1%, with similar upswings witnessed across Asia and Europe as well. For instance, in Turkey, prices soared by nearly ... Read more

Tesla Youtuber and friend of Nextbigfuture, Warren Redlich, reports that his Tesla sources give a more plausible story around the August 8, 2024 Robotaxi event. Bloomberg had reported that there would be a two month delay for the August 8, 2024 event. The stated reason was to get more prototypes built. Elon Musk confirmed it. ... Read more