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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

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I make the case for large Tesla profits from very good FSD (Full Self Driving) in an interview on Brighter With Herbert (youtuber Herbert Ong). Full Self Driving is the name of Tesla software for its driving assistance system. My case is that Tesla FSD is vastly improving and as good version of 12.4.X and ... Read more

Donald Trump pumps his fist as blood covers his face after pops' ring out. There were nine shots and three were before Trump ducked. Trump got up afterward but with blood on his face. They did not move Trump until the Secret Service said Shooter down, which is after about ten seconds. BREAKING: Donald Trump ... Read more

OpenAI's rumored project Strawberry is focused on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of its AI models. Strawberry is rumored to be based upon the QStar AI advance. QStar was a reasoning advance that supposedly triggered the power struggle inside OpenAI and temporary firing of CEO Sam Altman. Strawberry supposedly enables AI to perform long-horizon tasks (LHT), ... Read more

Youtuber Connecting the Dots makes the case for Tesla to use Robotaxi to replace Uber. The BG2 podcast (VCs that own Uber and Tesla) suggest that it would be better for Tesla to partner with Uber. He believes Tesla could use the X (aka Twitter) user base to seed a critical mass of ridehail users ... Read more

An MIT Professor of labor and productivity analysis, Daron Acemoglu, makes a case that AI progress to boosting world GDP growth will be less and transformative change will take longer. His case is not from a deep understanding or analysis of AI. He is looking at the comparative case of the internet. How long did ... Read more

The FAA grounded the SpaceX Falcon 9 after an in space failure of the Falcon 9 upper stage. There was a liquid oxygen leak. SpaceX had a good first burn and deployed the satellites but did not get them to the right orbital altitude. The satellites will be de-orbited. The Falcon 9 had the longest ... Read more

OpenAI reportedly internally introduced a new five-tier system to track its progress toward AGI. The classification system ranges from Level 1 (current conversational AI) to Level 5 (AI capable of running entire organizations) OpenAI reportedly internally introduced a new five-tier system to track its progress toward AGI. The classification system ranges from Level 1 (current ... Read more

Quantum computing researchers are exploring whether quantum computational advantage might be obtainable without quantum error correction. The larger one can make a quantum computer while continuing to push down error rates the more likely it is that we will find tasks at which non-error-corrected quantum computers dramatically outperform the best classical algorithms. The high gate ... Read more

The reason that Bloomberg gave to for delaying the Tesla Robotaxi event from August 8, 2024 does not make sense. There would be no reason to delay until October to show more robotaxi prototype cars. Tesla can have another event where they show cars. Also, the robotaxi vehicles need to be mass produced. Prototypes are ... Read more

There is a report from Bloomberg that the August 8, 2024 Tesla robotaxi event was delayed to October, 2024. This has caused about a 10% selloff in Tesla stock.

Ark Invest has observed that Baidu robotaxi is several times bigger than Waymo. They also report that the robotaxi and Tesla FSD systems are already safer than human driving. These are observations that Nextbigfuture has already reported over the past few weeks in more detail. China Robotaxi Companies are Giving More Rides than Waymo The ... Read more