Dojoâs lead, Peter Bannon, is leaving the company, and the remaining team members will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla, per Bloombergâs reporting, which cited anonymous sources.
The disbanding of Teslaâs Dojo efforts follows the departure of around 20 workers, who left the automaker to start their own AI company called DensityAI. The new startup is reportedly coming out of stealth soon and is building chips, hardware, and software that will power data centers for AI that are used in robotics, by AI agents, and in automotive applications. DensityAI was founded by former Dojo head Ganesh Venkataramanan and ex-Tesla employees Bill Chang and Ben Floering.
In 2023, Morgan Stanley predicted Dojo could add $500 billion to the companyâs market value by unlocking new revenue streams in the form of robotaxis and software services. Just last year, Musk noted that Teslaâs AI team would âdouble downâ on Dojo in the lead-up to Teslaâs robotaxi reveal, which happened in October.
That must have been in the second half of the interview. After about 30 mins of mind-numbing word salad and "visionary" insight I had to turn it off.
I guess you did catch the part where he suggests that the Antichrist is more likely to be someone like Greta Thunberg as opposed to some evil tech overlord.
Thiel told the New York Times that âMars was supposed to be a political project; it was building an alternative. And in 2024 Elon came to believe that if you went to Mars, the socialist US government, the woke AI would follow you to Mars.â
Muskâs change of heart was reportedly inspired by a conversation with London-based Google DeepMind AI boss Demis Hassabis, in which the two discussed whether AI or interplanetary travel would be the most important technological advancement in the world. According to the New York Times interview, âElon went quietâ after Hassabis told him: âWell, you know my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.â
In Thielâs view, this was the impetus for Musk backing Trump so heavily in last yearâs presidential election. The Palantir founder agreed with Douthat that this was the reason why the X owner had invested so much time in âbattles over budget deficits or wokenessâ.
Thiel also depicted Muskâs interstellar utopia as akin to American science fiction writer Robert Heinleinâs vision of the âmoon as a libertarian paradiseâ. A Martian colony may have started out as purely scientific aspiration, but Thiel says that as this was âconcretisedâ, it became clearer âthat Mars is supposed to be more than a science project. Itâs supposed to be a political projectâ.
That must have been in the second half of the interview. After about 30 mins of mind-numbing word salad and "visionary" insight I had to turn it off.
Thiel told the New York Times that âMars was supposed to be a political project; it was building an alternative. And in 2024 Elon came to believe that if you went to Mars, the socialist US government, the woke AI would follow you to Mars.â
Muskâs change of heart was reportedly inspired by a conversation with London-based Google DeepMind AI boss Demis Hassabis, in which the two discussed whether AI or interplanetary travel would be the most important technological advancement in the world. According to the New York Times interview, âElon went quietâ after Hassabis told him: âWell, you know my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.â
In Thielâs view, this was the impetus for Musk backing Trump so heavily in last yearâs presidential election. The Palantir founder agreed with Douthat that this was the reason why the X owner had invested so much time in âbattles over budget deficits or wokenessâ.
Thiel also depicted Muskâs interstellar utopia as akin to American science fiction writer Robert Heinleinâs vision of the âmoon as a libertarian paradiseâ. A Martian colony may have started out as purely scientific aspiration, but Thiel says that as this was âconcretisedâ, it became clearer âthat Mars is supposed to be more than a science project. Itâs supposed to be a political projectâ.
SpaceX Starship Rocket Explodes Before Test
The Starship experienced a âmajor anomalyâ before starting its 10th flight test. Elon Muskâs giant moon and Mars rocket has a mixed record of success. Video
