Simon Schmitz

Entrepreneur, former CEO (@awattarenergy), power market expert, $TSLA and @tado shareholder, sustainability leader; let’s drive carbon emissions down fast!

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

The "final puzzle piece" for rapidly scalable autonomy has landed. $TSLA FSD version 14.3. Now let's see whether it lives up to the expectations, including whether this will finally allow for real scaling of unsupervised FSD.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

BREAKING: Tesla has officially released FSD V14.3

I'm downloading it in my Model Y right now. Here's everything that's new:
• Improved parking location pin prediction, now shown on a map with a P icon.
• Increased decisiveness of parking spot selection and maneuvering.
• Rewrote the Al compiler and runtime from the ground up with MLIR, resulting in 20% faster reaction time and improving model iteration speed.
• Enhanced response to emergency vehicles, school buses, right-of-way violators, and other rare vehicles.
• Mitigated unnecessary lane biasing and minor tailgating behaviors.
• Improved handling of small animals by focusing RL training on harder examples and adding rewards for better proactive safety.
• Improved traffic light handling at complex intersections with compound lights, curved roads, and yellow light stopping - driven by training on hard RL examples sourced from the Tesla fleet.
• Upgraded the Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage of training the FSD neural network, resulting in improvements in a wide variety of driving scenarios.
• Upgraded the neural network vision encoder, improving understanding in rare and low-visibility scenarios, strengthening 3D geometry understanding, and expanding traffic sign understanding.
• Improved handling for rare and unusual objects extending, hanging, or leaning into the vehicle path by sourcing infrequent events from the fleet.
• Improved handling of temporary system degradations by maintaining control and automatically recovering without driver intervention, reducing unnecessary disengagements.

Upcoming Improvements:
• Expand reasoning to all behaviors beyond destination handling.
• Add pothole avoidance.
• Improve driver monitoring system sensitivity with better eye gaze tracking, eye wear handling, and higher accuracy in variable lighting conditions.

[Roland Pircher @piloly]

Level 4

[Christoph Beisler @ChristophBeisl1]

Aktuell wieder 100 Prozent erneuerbare Energien für Deutschland.

Es steht übrigens jetzt schon fest, dass es einen neuen Photovoltaikrekord (Strommenge) für den Monat Juni gibt.

Der Rekord wird heute Abend, spätestens morgen Mittag aufgestellt.

[Yoda @teslayoda]

❤️‍🔥Tesla is developing Distributed AI training and inference systems.

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

Progress in Switzerland! Now approve FSD next ;-)

[Sergiu Mogan @sergiumogan]

Great news for EV owners in 🇨🇭Switzerland.

"Tenants should be able to demand charging infrastructure for electric vehicles from their landlords."

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

Das kann irgendwie nicht gut sein für Bildung und Innovation.

[Stefan Krauter @solarpapst]

Wow. Das heißt, etwa 2/3 aller neuen Bücher auf Amazon wurden durch KI erzeugt und wurden sehr wahrscheinlich nie auf Wahrheitsgehalt und Pseudo-Quellen überprüft.
Willkommen im Zeitalter der Halluzinationen.

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

@TeslaBoomerMama Saxo (Switzerland): 5/38

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

@alex_avoigt @wholemars Agreed. Germany may well be last.

[AleXandra Merz 🇺🇲 @TeslaBoomerMama]

Excellent video by @ryanshawtech

Well worth your time watching

https://t.co/JvWCvar8tR

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

A key task of the radiologist now gets done by AI but the whole job doesn’t. Because the radiologist still needs to do more to fulfil the purpose of the job. And, importantly, more of the job needs to be done since it becomes easier and therefore volume can be allowed to increase. So, demand for radiologists has increased (according to Jensen) despite AI.

[0x鸣人 @LuBtc888]

有人问黄仁勋：AI会取代人类的工作吗？

没想到黄仁勋的回答震惊了众人。

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

@teslaxander Und jetzt auch noch ein bisschen mehr:
https://t.co/8cE7kF6CB0

[Tesla Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Unsupervised Robotaxi now in the entire Austin Metro area

[Sameer Dholakia @spdholakia]

In our initial @AnthropicAI investment thesis (back in the Spring of 2024, series D), we wrote that the foundation model layer of AI could match or surpass the entire cloud in TAM. And we believed that Anthropic could emerge from all the start-up labs as a major player, long before it was obvious. Now, a $965B valuation. A $47B run-rate. And available on every major hyperscaler.

We love that we underestimated the speed. Anthropic is truly a once-in-a-generation company!

https://t.co/Vtx9NgdcOV

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

Swiss traffic authority (ASTRA) is waiting for @teslaeurope's application to get FSD approved...

[FSD_Europilot @FSD_Europilot]

@teslaeurope see Switzerland’s openness towards considering FSD, they’re just waiting for your application! And so are all the Tesla users in Switzerland ;)

[Tsla Chan @Tslachan]

$TSLA
BREAKING : Tesla has officially launched FSD in Lithuania!

This is the second country to be approved in Europe!

[Sergiu Mogan @sergiumogan]

I am wondering if 🇨🇭 Switzerland actually wants FSD 🤔.
Sign the petition: https://t.co/GCimuDce6s

@TOS_Switzerland #fsdeurope #teslafsd #fsdswitzerland

[N. Schmid ⚡️☀️💨💧🔋 @N_Schmid]

Windkraft inklusive Speicher ist halb so teuer pro MWh, wie das neue AKW in Hinkley, wenn es dann endlich Strom produzieren wird.

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

AI is really getting real it seems…

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Figure taught two robots to make a bed together - fully autonomous

Honestly, they’re better at it than most humans

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

E-Autofahrer können in diesem Mai beim Tanken in Summe Geld verdienen. Verbrennerfahrer zahlen deutlich mehr als sonst.

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

Cameras + AI = better safety than with a human driver

[Kees Roelandschap @KRoelandschap]

Tesla FSD brakes for an invisible van 👀

Just two guys casually talking while being driven around by FSD.. we thought: HUH?!

Why would it stop, ah ofcourse FSD already saw what two Human Pilots failed to recognize.

A wild invisible van appeared

FSD didn’t even blink & said: hold my beer

@robotinreallife

[NL F$D Inside @TSLA_inside_]

Unreal! Watch Tesla FSD handle this tricky situation in the Netherlands. 🇳🇱

Another Tesla stops, puts on hazards, and starts reversing. My Tesla doesn’t just sit there—it recognizes the move, reverses to create space, then smoothly maneuvers around when the coast is clear. 🧠⚡️

The precision and "human-like" decision-making is next level.

The Netherlands has been ready and driving since April 10th. Now, it’s time for the rest of Europe to experience this! Hey Europe, are you watching? 👀

Huge thank you to @ElonMusk and the @Tesla_AI team for building the safest, most advanced tech on the road. The future is here. 🌍🚀

$TSLA #FSDBeta #Tesla #AI #AutonomousDriving #FSD Europe

@teslaeurope @elonmusk

[Simon Schmitz @simon3schmitz]

The steepest growth yet for #TSLA robotaxi: 6 added unsupervised vehicles in one day (technically 31% growth in one day ;-)