If you’re in the tech AI bubble, I strongly recommend you go and talk to average people and see how they use and perceive AI.
Most people don’t know what a CLI is, let alone think that CLI is the future interface of all applications.
They’re not automating the heck out of their everyday tasks. They’re using the same apps they used three years ago.
To them, AI is mostly advanced search plus a good consultant for health and shopping.
There’s a huge gap between the AI power users and average people. And bridging that gap presents a huge business opportunity.
All the regulations being floated by frontier model companies must be viewed through the lens of them losing tokens to Open-Source models.
The timing of these regulations seems to line up perfectly with Open Source closing the gap significantly (but not completely) — and @nvidia going all in on open source in the last 60 days.
If we’re gonna regulate, why don’t we require that last year’s frontier models and weights be open-sourced?
To everyone that thinks Elon's historical criticisms of Waymo are the same as what Waymo is doing to Tesla right now - here is proof you are wrong:
Waymo is literally publicly campaigning and doing everything it can to get the public, regulators, and eventual protesters afraid of camera-only systems
Look at what just happened in New Jersey. That bill got drafted right after Andrew Zwicker (Senator) rode in a Waymo. Waymo engaged in the drafting phase and also got the safety driver provision removed, which would have hurt THEIR driverless model. The bill would require fully driverless AVs to have cameras AND two other sensing modalities (which would directly harm Tesla)
Elon on the other hand argues against lidar from a technological perspective. Elon is not at all concerned with trying to slow Waymo down, yet it's CLEAR AS DAY Waymo IS trying to slow Tesla down (even though they are trying to do it subtly without naming Tesla)
Nor is Tesla publicly lobbying attempting cause FUD around Waymo. It's always been strictly about the techological approach from Elon and with what Waymo is doing right now, it's far more nefarious than that
Tesla has a clear and obvious path to scale, it is not at all concerned with slowing Waymo down. Waymo does not have a clear path to scale (let alone profitability). Waymo knows it, and they are now scrambling to slow Tesla down any way it can
The criticisms ARE NOT THE SAME $TSLA
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Elon Musk and @xAI
“Never been done before – xAI did in 19 days what everyone else needs one year to accomplish. That is superhuman – There's only one person in the world who could do that – Elon Musk is singular in his understanding of engineering.”
Can you imagine how terrifying it must be for @Waymo to see hundreds and hundreds of these being made in such a short period of time?
It doesn't take long at that rate to eclipse Waymo's entire fleet size of just a few thousand cars...
I just saw this incredible clip of @Tesla saving a person who was crossing a highway. It is unclear if it was on FSD or not, but it was clearly an emergency avoidance feature built into the car.
The reaction time is truly superhuman! This technology saves innocent lives every day.
Source: @ hmm74849 on Tiktok
Today is @elonmusk's 55th birthday.
In those 55 years, he has only:
• Founded or co-founded 7 multi-billion- or trillion-dollar companies
• Made EVs mainstream
• Pioneered reusable rockets, reducing the cost of access to space
• Created 600,000 jobs (direct+supply-chain)
• Paid out more than $100B in salaries
• Restored astronaut launches to American soil
• Built a global satellite internet constellation used by millions and that connects schools in remote areas, hospitals in isolated regions, supports emergency responders after natural disasters, and more
• Created trillions of dollars in wealth for his company's shareholders & employees
• Enabled paralyzed/disabled people to control computers using thought, bringing more independence
• Created the most productive automotive factory in the U.S. (Tesla's Fremont factory)
• Created the Model Y, which become the #1 bestselling car in the world (first EV to do so)
• Created the first private company to dock with the International Space Station and send astronauts to orbit
• Became NASA's primary commercial launch provider
• Developed the first point-to-point self-driving system (FSD), improving road safety
• Built some of the world's largest and most advanced factories
• Built the world's largest fast-charging network for EVs
• Built one of the world's largest AI supercomputers
• Built operational underground transportation tunnels under Las Vegas
• Helped build what became PayPal and transformed online payments
• Done more than any single individual to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy
• Became the world's greatest entrepreneur
Maybe one day Elon will actually accomplish something 😉 Happy Birthday!
This is totally coming, and will be yet another revenue stream for my family in the years ahead, with our 5 Tesla's sitting in the drive way, that will be able to make money from transportation, compute, and energy as a service. Than when I get my @Tesla_Optimus robot it will also be able to share compute and labor as a service.
It's going to be awesome 😎.
The Midjourney medical thing is genuinely strange and I kind of love it.
The plan is a spa.
Hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, open 24/7, first location in San Francisco in 2027.
You step into a shallow pool of water, sink slowly through a ring of half a million tiny ultrasonic sensors, and in about 60 seconds you walk out with a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No magnets, no radiation, no contrast, just sound waves and warm water.
Compare that to how we do this now:
They say it's close to 100x faster than an MRI ("60 seconds"). For context, a normal MRI in the US averages around $1,300 and the scan alone can take over an hour inside a loud metal tube. A full-body scan from Prenuvo runs about $2,500 for roughly the same hour.
Midjourney wants to flip the whole feeling of it. Build a place you'd want to visit even if there were no scanner, then collect the health data as a side effect. I have no idea yet if the tech delivers what they claim. But the framing is smart.
The hardest problem in preventive health has always been getting people to actually show up, and a spa solves that better than a hospital ever will.