My 18-month investigation into Sam Altman and OpenAI in @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz, is out now.
Read here: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P
Thread on a few of the key findings here: https://t.co/TVIBsUoRdB
Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with @SpaceX, @xAI, and @Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology.
Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 TW/year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics.
It was fun hosting @elonmusk at Intel this past weekend!
ELON MUSK: “If you're a normal human being and you speak freely, there are times when you will say things that you subsequently regret or are foolish, of course!
But if you're constantly going through a filter, now you're not being real. So I think it's better to be real than to go through a filter”
Visualization of a 100M sqft Terafab factory using Giga Texas (10M sqft).
Such a factory would encompass the ENTIRETY of downtown Austin. From N Lamar BLVD to I-35. From the Colorado River to the middle of UT Austin.
This is just factory space, not counting how much land would be needed for power generation and storage, logistics lots, water retention, dedicated rail yards, possibly even an airfield.
Terafab, wherever Tesla can find the land, would operate like an independent city, inhabited by tens of millions of Optimus robots.
It's not even in our vocabulary to describe the scale of this operation, 'unprecedented' doesn't cut it.
It will not be easy by any stretch of the imagination, but damn will it be epic. This is how we become a galactic civilization.
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought https://t.co/WVbGOPqJSn