Posted on 11/01/2025 11:00:26 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Just finished a long AI5 design review with the Tesla California and Texas chip engineers. It’s going to be great.
And AI6 and AI7 will follow in fast succession.
AI8 will be out of this world.
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https://x.com/chinchat09/status/1984853629833200069?t=JmbzkQqkXkDd20oW9LWusg&s=19
About the unveiling he said... “Whether its good or bad, it will be unforgetable”
Indeed, he is going and going strong, but to what intended destination? What’s ‘going to be great & out of this world?
How much more would a car be expected to do, other than transport you from Point A to Point B without breaking down or hitting a pedestrian?
Soon, it may become common to see the human in the driver’s seat napping or dining while the car does all the work. Complete and total confidence in the machine will be a major selling point.
Like his Tesla truck unvailing where the baseball pitcher Thur a ball through the window? Lol
Read post number 2 and the videos on that link.
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Hmm...
Dud they?
What are the purpose of these chips that Tesla is creating?
Grok:
The Tesla A15, A16, and AI7 chips (with A15 equivalent to AI5 and A16 to AI6 in Tesla’s naming conventions) are custom in-house AI processors designed primarily to accelerate neural network inference for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) autonomous driving hardware in vehicles. They also support AI workloads for humanoid robots (like Optimus) and data center supercomputing, enabling Tesla’s vertical integration of hardware and software for optimized efficiency and performance.
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Key Purposes and Capabilities
Autonomous Driving Inference: These chips process real-time vision-based AI models for perception, planning, and control in Tesla vehicles, replacing or augmenting third-party GPUs (e.g., from NVIDIA). The A15/AI5, for instance, delivers up to 40x the performance of the prior AI4 (HW4) in key metrics, with 8x more raw compute power and 9x more memory, while running inference up to 10x cheaper than comparable NVIDIA chips.
Robotics and Broader AI Applications: Surplus production is allocated to power Optimus robot brains and edge computing in small data centers, focusing on low-power, high-efficiency designs (e.g., performance per watt and dollar optimized for scale).
Evolution Across Generations:
A15/AI5: Current focus; a “monster” chip (per Elon Musk) with a converged architecture that eliminates separate GPUs and image processors for a compact half-reticle design. Production starts in the US via Samsung (Texas) and TSMC (Arizona) in 2026.
A16/AI6: Follows closely, introducing dual capabilities for both inference and training— a key upgrade over prior chips—while maintaining the same multi-use versatility.
AI7: Planned for rapid succession after AI6; details are sparse, but it’s part of Tesla’s aggressive roadmap to push toward “out-of-this-world” AI8, emphasizing even greater scalability for real-time autonomy and robotics.
These chips stem from Tesla’s shift away from the Dojo training supercomputer team to prioritize inference-focused silicon, reducing reliance on external suppliers and accelerating FSD deployment.
In house chip development. Interesting.
Sounds like the AI is the real driver (little pun there), and the cars and robots will be just some tools it operates. They will be our interfaces with the mega intelligence in the data centers.
“Tesla’s chief designer Franz von Holzhausen lobed a hefty metal ball at the window — and smashed it. “Oh my f*****g God,” Musk muttered, in apparent chagrin.”
“Maybe that was a little hard,” Von Holzhausen said.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-shows-off-bulletproof-cybertruck-breaks-window
The ball didn’t go through the window. Later:
“Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen, who infamously shattered one of the truck’s windows at the time by lobbing a metal ball at it, took the stage today to give it another shot.
Except that it wasn’t exactly a fair comparison. Von Holzhausen halfheartedly lobbed a baseball — rather than a heavy metal ball, like last time — at the Cybertruck’s window during today’s event. The ball harmlessly bounced off the truck, proving nothing.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-delivery-baseball
I cite these facts not as a retort, but to exemplify that this was yet another ad nauseam example that supposedly very smart people can be quite dumb.
That stated, I am quite dubious about the AI hype, but I’m certain that Musk has a plan for his AI and that the odds are that he’ll demonstrate a higher level of genuine commercial success than the others.
The Model X can weigh up to 5,390 pounds. Gonna need a long runway.
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