And sooner. Austin to LA on FSD is 2 easy days vs 3 hard ones without it.

Eugene Wigner: “It was a burden growing up so close to him. I often wonder if my horrific inferiority complex, which not even the Nobel Prize has diminished in the slightest, is a product of having known von Neumann for the better part of my life.”

Ashok on Q324 earnings call: “Like you mentioned, Elon, we already made a 100x improvement with 12.5 from starting of this year and then with v13 release we expect to be 1000x from the beginning from January this year.” At that time both Elon & Ashok predicted Q2/3 2025 for

Man. Just. Wow.

MSM headlines about starship are like the intro to 2001 - but with the primates throwing fecal matter at the monolith.

😲

My Dad’s first robot car

Yes. More please. More for everyone.

Robotaxi waiting list is open for business!

Nice. Glad to see more people thinking through this carefully. Some comments: 1) The functional TOPS of the silicon is dominated by the NNU, and (conceptually) modest architectural changes to the NNU have a big impact on TOPS without much power or area change. For example -

While hype is a real thing, it’s also true that deep learning continues to outperform simple extrapolations of existing trends, often by orders of magnitude.

Sawyer Merritt The Samsung fab in Texas will make AI6, not AI5, and the decision regarding using HBM has not been made yet. As the ratio of total parameters to active (frequently used) parameters increases, the cost per unit of useful compute and compute per Watt may favor relatively

Sawyer Merritt You can fit more total RAM on the board if you use “normal” memory than high-bandwidth memory and it is super cheap. Maybe high-bandwidth memory is still the right choice, but using HBM isn’t the slam dunk many people think it is.

If Tesla’s Robotaxi efforts continue to go well we could see both US road accidents and US road emissions halved in less than 10 years.

Datacenter power will change to solar+batteries.

As you approach the event horizon you see the universe around you accelerate.