Bill Gates bet billions against Tesla in a method called short selling. Short selling involves borrowing a security from a broker and selling it on the open market. Short selling adds liquidity to a market by increasing the volume of buying and selling above normal levels. This volume would not exist without short sellers. The …
Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others. Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk will be released tomorrow. Walter describes how Elon can visual the material science, manufacturing processes and even crash tests. Walter can give 500 examples of this special ability. …
John Gibb (aka Dr Know it All) predicted the in 2020 Cybertruck like design elements of the Tesla Next Generation car. Yesterday, the Elon Musk Biography by Walter Isaacson revealed that the Tesla executive and engineering teams have designed a cybertruck like robotaxi and next generation vehicle. John Gibb went to a first principles design …
SpaceX has 61 successful launches of Falcon rockets so far in 2023. Elon indicates they will target 10 flights per month for the 4 remaining months of the year to hopefully reach 100 launches. They will tehn increase to 12 per month in 2024 which would get SpaceX to 140-150 launches in 2024. This is …
PG&E, one of California’s main energy utility, CEO Patti Poppe spoke with Elon Musk. Elon said that he is certain that global electrical output will need to triple to handle the electrification of transportation and the heating of buildings. This trend and increasing development could increase energy usage by ten times for developing countries like …
CEO of Twitter Linda Yaccarino says X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine. X is the future state of unlimited interactivity …
Elon Musk explained his plan for building a safer AI and the creation of his new XAI comppnay. xAI will seek to create a “maximally curious” AI. “If it tried to understand the true nature of the universe, that’s actually the best thing that I can come up with from an AI safety standpoint,” Musk …
Elon Musk spoke today in a video at the World AI Conference 2023. He said FSD will be officially released at the end of this year, and he said Tesla would be happy to license self-driving technology to other car companies. He also ended by praising China’s AI capabilities. Elon Musk spoke today in a …
Elon Musk told Ashlee Vance on a Twitter Space, that SpaceX had recently decided to switch to a “hot-staging” approach where the Starship upper stage will ignite its engines while still attached to the Super Heavy booster. Musk said, describing the switch to hot staging. “There’s a meaningful payload-to-orbit advantage with hot-staging that is conservatively …
Elon Musk announced to the press that he will invest in India. Presumably this will be some kind of Tesla factory. Based upon India taxing and custom duties of vehicles, Tesla will likely at least assemble vehicles in India. Custom duties for fully built cars are about 70-100% while assembled vehicles are far less. BREAKING: …
Elon Musk said yesterday that Tesla will have its ChatGPT moment late this year or next year. He was referring to when Tesla Full Self Driving is capable of replacing the human driver and making the driving experience both safer and more comfortable. IF FSD is fully complete late this year and robotaxi next year, …