On May 15, Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu’s autonomous driving vehicle department, said in an interview that Baidu is considering potential collaboration opportunities with Tesla for the latter’s upcoming Robotaxi service. The decision will be based on Tesla’s specific application models and the timing of their entry into the Chinese market. For those that …
Elon Musk said that Tesla FSD 12.4 goes to internal release this weekend and limited external beta next week. Roughly 5X to 10X improvement in miles per intervention vs 12.3. 12.5 will be out in late June. Will also see a major improvement in mpi and is single stack – no Yeah, seeing it everywhere. …
Boeing Starliner’s CFT (crewed flight test) is delayed again. They are now targeting no earlier than May 21st which is a push by another 4 days. There is a helium leak in the spacecraft. Starliner will launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Florida’s Space …
Waymo is under investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444 Waymo vehicles follows 22 reports of 22 incidents including 17 collisions. The agency said in some of those cases the automated driving systems appeared to disobey traffic safety control devices and some crashes occurred shortly after …
There is raw video of the SpaceX Falcon 9 that is claimed to be independently captured from the ground by a group of radio amateurs. It gives a view of the Lox tanks and the engine. I decided to upload the unfiltered, raw intercepted video streams from the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket's Upper Stage in …
Bloomerg reported, Apple is near a deal to use ChatGPT features in iOS 18, the iPhone’s next major software update. Apple has held discussions with Google to license the company’s chatbot Gemini. In 2023, Google CEO testified that Google pays Apple 36% of its Safari search revenue. The search engine shares this revenue, which is …
Astronomers decided to look for partially constructed Dyson spheres and other megastructures around stars. They determined that half-built Dyson spheres or megastructures would be easy to see with our telescopes. They made a fairly comprehensive search and found seven candidate stars. The candidate stars are all white dwarfs. They also eliminated stars where other astrophysical …
In 2022, there were projections predict that we will have exhausted the stock of low-quality language data by 2030 to 2050, high-quality language data before 2026, and vision data by 2030 to 2060. This might slow down ML progress. However, the conclusions rely on the unrealistic assumptions that current trends in ML data usage and …
Brian talks with Herbert Ong about Tesla FSD and Robotaxi. FSD is showing accelerated improvement. What will this mean for Tesla in China, globally and what will happen with robotaxi? 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 …
The All-in podcast billionaires try to find out what Sam Altman and OpenAI are planning. They asked Sam about what OpenAI is and will be doing and why. Question- when will get to vastly cheaper and faster language models (free queries) Sam says that is goal but he does not know when. Translation – Sam …
An 83 page 2023, report to the US Congress by the Department of Energy has three citations to articles by Nextbigfuture.com Alternate Fuels: Thorium and Uranium-233, Report to Congress March 2023 This report describes the potential use of thorium fuel and uranium-233 (U-233) in future eneration IV reactor designs and in current light water reactors. …