Vignesh Raghuraman

SpaceX Engineering | Ex-Tesla | ATX

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

These motherfuckers really do seem to see and solve every problem differently than everyone else.

Really inspiring.

Congrats Tesla.

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

Our Lithium Refinery ushers in energy independence for North America

Regionalized access to critical battery minerals brings jobs, cuts emissions & helps accelerate our mission

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla Model Y is now officially the world’s best-selling car for the third year in a row!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@teslaownersSV If Gates hasn’t fully closed out the crazy short position he has held against Tesla for ~8 years, he had better do so soon

[Tesla @Tesla]

World's first autonomous delivery of a car!

This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Super congratulations to the @teslasi software & chip design teams on a successful @Robotaxi launch!!

Culmination of a decade of hard work.

Both the AI chip and software teams were built from scratch within Tesla.

[Omead Afshar @omead]

Excited for our Robotaxi launch this month!

Driverless cars have been operating in our factories for over two months. Important to note that we are not using a dedicated lane for these cars. Trucks are coming with supplies and people are coming in and out of the factory all day.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Robots will surpass good human surgeons within a few years and the best human surgeons within ~5 years.

@Neuralink had to use a robot for the brain-computer electrode insertion, as it was impossible for a human to achieve the required speed and precision.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone supporting Tesla in the face of relentless attacks.

❤️❤️ Super Appreciated!! ❤️❤️

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

This week, we fed raw material through our kiln of our Lithium Refinery outside of Corpus Christi, TX for the very first time!

Increasing lithium refining capacity is critical to a sustainable energy economy

[Tesla @Tesla]

Produced our 100 millionth 4680 cell across all our factories!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@wholemars 😂

Once Tesla fully solves autonomy and has Optimus in volume production, anyone still holding a short position will be obliterated. Even Gates.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Cybertruck winter testing ❄️

[Tesla @Tesla]

Increasing lithium refining capacity is critical to a sustainable energy economy—today, we're breaking ground on our in-house lithium refinery outside of Corpus Christi, TX.

This facility will also prioritize the elimination of a challenging refinery byproduct (sodium sulfate).

Instead, the byproduct is a mixture of sand & calcium carbonate—a viable additive in the production of construction materials, allowing us to make use of this waste stream.

In the future, we will also process other intermediate lithium feedstocks, including those from recycled batteries & manufacturing scrap.

[Tesla @Tesla]

California Engineering HQ—Remarks by Gov. Newsom/Elon Musk https://t.co/DMoY7TYK5O

[ATLJACOB @atljacobbeatz]

The growth is insane

[Nav @beatsbynav]

July 29th!!!