Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI.
Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software.
You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind).
This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal.
In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft.
No other company can yet do this.
Starting out, it’s easy to treat automated testing as a nice-to-have. But as systems grow in size and complexity, relying on manual testing becomes inefficient.
I wrote a practical guide on integration testing in Go using Docker and Testcontainers 👇
https://t.co/kp0EOioDiB
- Linux is free
- Docker is free
- Kubernetes is free
- Git and Github are free
- GitHub Actions is free
- Python is free
- AWS, GCP, Azure are free (limited use)
- Terraform is free
- ArgoCD and Flux are free
- Prometheus and Grafana are free
all you need is a laptop and internet.
Big win for Nigeria. Big win for tech.
Congratulations to Dr. Bosun Tijani on being named to TIME’s #TIME100AI list of 2025.
Recognition like this isn’t just about one person , it’s proof that African innovation is shaping the global AI story.
Cc: @bosuntijani