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ML @ Tesla AI

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

Really big

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken

FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly! 

Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways

No other vehicle can do this. 

We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

Just the beginning

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car.

Congrats to the @Tesla_AI team!

If you’re interested in solving real-world AI, which is likely to lead to AGI imo, join Tesla AI. Solving real-world AI for Optimus will be 100X harder than cars.

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

Come join and help us develop this super cool tech!

See @aelluswamy's write up for more details.

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

Wrote about some of the recent work from the excellent @Tesla_AI team. The same material was presented at the International Conference of Computer Vision this week.

The main purpose of sharing this content is to show the cutting-edge work that the team has been developing and attract more talented engineers to join the team.

Tesla is THE place to solve real-world robotics. The team is extremely talented, determined and motivated. The technology that is already developed is cutting-edge and the roadmap is exhilarating. The work done here will tremendously benefit all of humanity. Hence, we believe that this is the best place to work on AI on the entire planet currently. Join us and let's bring millions of intelligent, friendly and useful robots to life.
https://t.co/AWpzhZVNcM

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

A peek into what we've been working on

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

A new 30-minute presentation from @aelluswamy, Tesla’s VP of AI, has been released, where he talks about FSD, AI and the team’s latest progress.

Highlight from the presentation:
• Tesla's vehicle fleet can provide 500 years of driving data every single day.

Curse of Dimensionality:
• 8 cameras at high frame rate = billions of tokens per 30 seconds of driving context.
• Tesla must compress and extract the right correlations between sensory input and control actions.

Data Advantage:
• Tesla has access to a “Niagara Falls of data” — hundreds of years’ worth of collective fleet driving.
• Uses smart data triggers to capture rare corner cases (e.g., complex intersections, unpredictable behavior).

Quality and Efficiency:
• Extracts only the essential data needed to train models efficiently.

Debugging and Interpretability:
• Even though the system is end-to-end, Tesla can still prompt the model to output interpretable data:
3D occupancy, road boundaries, objects, signs, traffic lights, etc.
• Natural language querying: ask the model why it made a certain decision.
• These auxiliary predictions don’t drive the car but help engineers debug and ensure safety.

Tesla’s Advanced Gaussian Splatting (3D Scene Modeling):
• Tesla developed a custom, ultra-fast Gaussian splatting system to reconstruct 3D scenes from limited camera views.
• Produces crisp, accurate 3D renderings even from few camera angles — far better than standard NeRF/splatting approaches.
• Enables rapid visual debugging of the driving environment in 3D.

Evaluation & World Models:
• Evaluation is the hardest challenge: models may perform well offline but fail in real-world conditions.
• Tesla builds balanced, diverse evaluation datasets focusing on edge cases — not just easy highway driving.

Introduced a learned world simulator (neural network-generated video engine):
• Can simulate 8 Tesla camera feeds simultaneously — fully synthetic.
• Used for testing, training, and reinforcement learning.
• Allows adversarial event injection (e.g., adding a pedestrian or vehicle cutting in).
• Enables replaying past failures to verify new model improvements.
• Can run in near real-time, letting testers “drive” inside a simulated world.

What’s Next:
• Scale robotaxi service globally.
• Unlock full autonomy across the entire Tesla fleet.
• Cybercab: next-gen 2-seat vehicle designed specifically for robotaxi use, targeting lowest transportation cost (cheaper than public transit).
• Same neural networks will power Optimus humanoid robot.
• The same video generation system is now being applied to Optimus.
• The system can simulate and plan movement for robots, adapting easily to new forms.

via the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

Full presentation: https://t.co/Mdswdz4oqh

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

Sadly I missed the photo 😭

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

The best team!

[Phil Duan @pduan]

Hi there!

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

@vm2358 I like them

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

@levelsio @Kling_ai Camera movement seems disabled in v1.5? How did you do it?

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

@yishan @Bob_Mayo If anything went wrong, nitrogen can silently cause hypoxia and kill you. Would not recommend this.

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

👀

[Dirty Tesla @DirtyTesLa]

Cybertruck vision Park update continues to rollout! Woo! Anyone else?

[Tesla @Tesla]

Tesla Vision Autopark now rolling out to vehicles with ultrasonic sensors in the US & Canada

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

My daughter loves it too, keeps making me do Autopark over and over.

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

👀

[Tesla @Tesla]

Now rolling out

[Tesla @Tesla]

When parking, you can now see a high fidelity 3D representation of the world around your vehicle, including proximity & shape of nearby objects, barriers, vehicles & painted road markings

By using a dedicated neural network to model obstacles & paint lines, we can accurately estimate distances & represent arbitrary shapes in a smooth & computationally efficient way

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

It’s been an honor to work with @aelluswamy and the rest of the team to make this feature a reality!

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

High-fidelity park assist is shipping this weekend to Tesla customers without ultrasonic sensors as part of the holiday release!

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

https://t.co/RPjcYzwxSv

[Tesla @Tesla]

The 2023 Holiday Update rolls out next week

Here’s what’s coming...

Custom Lock Sounds
Replace the horn lock sound of your vehicle with another sound—like a screaming goat 🐐

LAN Party on Wheels
Play your favorite games on the rear touchscreen 🎮

Rear Screen Bluetooth Headsets
Parents, rejoice. Rear passengers can now use wireless Bluetooth headphones when watching shows or playing games on the rear screen

Apple Podcasts
Listen to millions of the world’s most popular podcasts @ApplePodcasts

Tesla App Trip Planner
Use the Tesla mobile app to plan a multi-stop trip and send it to your vehicle

Speed Cameras on Route
Navigation now includes speed cameras, stop signs & traffic lights

Automatic 911 Calls
Your vehicle will automatically call 911 if an accident triggers the airbags

Blind Spot Indicators
The blind spot camera will alert you with red shading when your turn signal is on and a car is detected in your blind spot

More Live Sentry Cameras
When viewing vehicle surroundings from the Tesla app, you'll now have access to the left and right pillar cameras for a total of 7 angles

Light Show
Enjoy a thunderous new Light Show called 'The Arrival'

Castle Doombad
Castle Doombad is now available in the Tesla Arcade—plus updates to Beach Buggy, Polytopia & Vampire Survivors

High Fidelity Park Assist
See a 3D reconstruction of your surroundings while parking

*Availability varies by model and location

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

I’m excited to show off what some of us have been working on at Tesla Autopilot!

Check out High Fidelity Park Assist in this year’s holiday release.

https://t.co/l0AShyqLYF

[The Tesla Newswire @TeslaNewswire]

🔥🅿️ 360° view thanks to High Fidelity Park Assist included in the Tesla Holiday Update (2023.44.30.1)

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

@VaxHuntersCan Just got my vax. Thank you!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

[Lawson @lawsonfulton]

@_marcogiglio @RyanTheGentry @michael_saylor @ln_strike @lightning My understanding is that Transferwise maintains balances of local currencies in each country. This means they are exposed to currency risk, no?