There is video evidence that Teslabots are in a Tesla factory working on production equipment on a production process to make production parts for production cars. The robots aren't coming. They are already here. This is not a lab. This is on the production floor. That is production equipment. That is a production process. That …
The three main ingredients leading to predictable improvements in AI performance are training data, computation, and improved algorithms. In the mid-2010s, some AI researchers noticed that larger AI systems were consistently smarter, and so they theorized that the most important ingredient in AI performance might be the total budget for AI training computation. When this …
Spark Capital is leading a $300 million investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. Google invested $400 million in Anthropic. Anthropic is a competitor to OpenAI which makes ChatGPT. Anthropic is now valued at 4.1 billion. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former senior members of OpenAI, principally siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, the latter …
Alphabet’s Waymo , self-driving company, has laid off 8% (209 employees) of its workforce. The layoffs — mostly engineering roles — are part of a broader organizational restructure. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway paid $8.2 billion to acquire Pilot Travel Centers in January. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway quietly acquired $1 billion in January and promises to boost its exposure to the fast-growing electric vehicle industry. Renowned Investor’s Group bought 41.4% of Pilot Travel Centers on January 31 for approximately $8.2 billion. The transaction boosts …
About 100 minutes into Tesla Investor Day, Tesla showed off a Teslabot walking without cables. They have multiple copies and it was shown assembling part of another Teslabot. Tesla is making all of its actuators and soon all its controllers. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 …
Solid robots can now move, melt and reform like the T-1000 in the movie Terminator 2. Magnetoactive liquid-solid phase transitional matter. Highlights • Magnetoactive phase transitional matter (MPTM) is made of NdFeB embedded liquid metal • MPTMs can reversibly switch between solid and liquid phase • MPTMs can solder electronic components and assemble parts in …
Bloomberg News reports that Tesla China will be halting some production at Gigafactory Shanghai until the end of February. The facility has two phases that are used for vehicle manufacturing, and with the upgrades in motion, some workers in the first phase will reportedly not be allowed on production lines as soon as Sunday. According …
Generative AI is a big step forward. It may not be Artificial General Intelligence. But it will take fundamental capabilities like search and chat to the next level(s). There will be Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI competing at the base level. There will be more companies making specialized expert versions from the base layer and …
Ark Invest has their Big Ideas report for 2023. The market value of disruptive innovation platforms could scale 40% at an annual rate during this business cycle, from $13 trillion today to $200 trillion by 2030. Five convering technologies will define this decade. 1. Artificial Intelligence 2. Robotics 3. Energy Storage 4. Public Blockchains 5. …
The City of San Francisco wants Waymy and Cruise robotaxis kept out of downtown and to only drive outside of downtown during off-peak hours — outside 7 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.
