Tesla's Autonomous Family Grows

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Here is what we have Today:

• 🚕 Tesla's robot party: Driverless cabs, dancing bots

• 🔍 Search war heats up: Publishers lose out?

• 🔥 AMD ignites AI chip war

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

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🚗 Elon Musk Revealed the “Autonomous” Future — We, ROBOT

Elon Musk revealed the "Cybercab" long-awaited Robotaxi, a futuristic autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, and surprise “Robovan” and “Optimus Humanoid Robot” announcement.

ROBOTAX - CYBERCAB

What's special about the Robotaxi?

• Features gull-wing doors and a completely autonomous design

• Priced under $30,000, making it surprisingly affordable

• Operating costs projected at just 20 cents per mile

• Production scheduled to begin in 2026

How does it work?

• Relies on AI and cameras for autonomous operation

• Uses extensive training data instead of lidar hardware

• Represents a different approach from competitors

ROBOVAN

What about the surprise Robovan?

• Larger self-driving vehicle capable of carrying up to 20 people

• Unexpected addition to Tesla's autonomous vehicle lineup

TESLA OPTIMUS

What did Musk say about Optimus robots?

• Optimus bots are walking, partying, and serving drinks to participants at the event

• Projected price range of $20,000-$30,000

• Claimed they'll be "The Biggest Product Ever of Any Kind"

Why does this matter?

• Could revolutionize transportation with affordable autonomous vehicles

• Potentially disrupts traditional ride-sharing and public transport

• Signals Tesla's commitment to a fully autonomous future

This launch represents a major step toward Tesla's vision of autonomous transportation, potentially transforming how we think about and use vehicles in the future.

Trending Today

• AMD has launched its new lineup of AI-focused processors New Ryzen™ AI PRO 300 Series, showing off a range of releases aimed at competing with rivals Nvidia and Intel in the booming data center and AI chip market at the company’s Advancing AI 2024 event,.

• Japanese AI startup Rhymes released Aria, hailed as the first open-source multimodal native Mixture-of-Experts model — offering SOTA performance across various tasks with a lightweight 3.9B parameters and 64k token context window.

• Anduril Industries launched two new AI-powered drones, Bolt and Bolt-M to help with reconnaissance and precision strikes, making them easier to use, flexible and lethal precision more effectively in a variety of missions.

• OpenAI has introduced MLE-bench, a new benchmark consists of 75 curated Kaggle competitions covering a ML tasks like model training, data preparation, and experimentation designed to evaluate how well AI agents perform on real-world machine learning engineering tasks

• OpenAI has confirmed that SearchGPT—which will give users real-time answers to search queries (like Google does), alongside source citations, which was first launched in July as a prototype—will be integrated into ChatGPT by the end of the year — but publishers won’t receive ad revenue.

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