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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

Elon Musk described how XAI used 24,000 Nvidia H100s to create Grok 2, an AI model that is better than OpenAI GPT 4. XAI Grok 2 will release in August. Elon is pushing the rapid 100k data center build to catch up for GPT 5 or 5.5. XAI set up the 100,000 Nvidia H100 themselves ... Read more

Neuralink will double the bandwidth of its devices with more accurate placement of the threads into the brain. The next generation device will have 3000 channels. The company's first system, called Telepathy, centers around 64 threads that are inserted directly into the brain. The threads are thinner than a human hair and record neural signals ... Read more

Jordan at the Limiting Factor projects magapack energy demand. He does his usual excellent job but he does not factor in increased energy demand from AI data centers. AI data centers could more double the amount of overall world energy needed by 2040. The overall energy demand used in Tesla Master Plan part 3 did ... Read more

Dr Charles Buhler takes people through his lab in a new video. He explains more about how they developed and detected a new force from large electrostatic pressure differences. They claim this force can test theories of physics related to gravity and a macroscale casimr effects. This is highly controversial but if this proves out ... Read more

Hi Nextbigfuture readers. There was a few hours of outage for Nextbigfuture.com due to Stackpath going out of business. They were providing DNS nameserver access. Stackpath DNS servers were shutdown. I have now switched and corrected the new DNS records. This will propogate globally. Apologies for the inconvenience.

I appreciate the time and effort that commenters and supporters of nextbigfuture.com make. It is more time consuming for me to manage comments. There is a LOT more spam. I also do not want to manage comments with insults and aggression. Do not just make comments just trashing countries (like China) or people or individuals. ... Read more

Today, there is a new video interview of the lead researcher at Exodus Technologies who are making a radical new propellantless propulsion system. They claim they can produce over 1G of thrust for a lightweight device. IF this claim is true then they could make spaceships that could go to Mars in 5 days and ... Read more

With cryptocurrency becoming a widely accepted and developing trend in the financial world, various industries and professions have emerged due to its relevance. These range from crypto marketing agencies that promote crypto projects to software and programs that make these marketing campaigns much easier and more effective and have also become prevalent. To discover how ... Read more

China's room temperature superconductor research continues. Here is the latest published work from the team from multiple universities and labs. This is the same teams that found stronger magnetic indications of Meissner effect in LK99 variant materials. Through heavily doping sulfur into an apatite framework, chinese researchers synthesized a new blend mainly comprising variant apatite ... Read more

Three months ago, Nextbigfuture covered Exodus Propulsion's claim of a huge space propulsion breakthrough. They claim they can produce over 1G of thrust for a lightweight device. IF this claim is true then they could make spaceships that could go to Mars in 5 days and reach near light lightspeed in a year. They would ... Read more