Tesla, known for its electric vehicles and energy solutions, integrates AI into its automotive and robotics initiatives. The company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology is a differentiator, using AI to advance autonomous driving capabilities. Tesla’s AI-driven product roadmap also includes the development of the Optimus humanoid robot and autonomous Robotaxi services. Tesla’s infrastructure investments and AI training clusters support its commitment to AI across transportation, robotics -- and point to potential licensing of FSD to other manufacturers.
We made many critical investments in 2024 in manufacturing AI and robotics that will bear immense fruit in the future, immense. Like it's, in fact, to such a scale that it is difficult to comprehend.
Quotes from tesla Executives About Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI
The training needs for Optimus or Optimus humanoid robot are probably at least ultimately 10x of what's needed for the car, at least to get to the full range of useful roles.
- Elon Musk
[Tesla is] launching unsupervised Full Self Driving as a paid service in Austin in June.
- Elon Musk
...thousands of cars every day are driving with no one in them at our Fremont factory in California. They will soon be doing that in Austin and then elsewhere...
- Elon Musk
...our solution is a generalized AI solution. It does not require high precision maps of a locality.
- Elon Musk
...there is no company in the world that is as good at real-world AI as Tesla. I don't even know who’s in second place...
- Elon Musk
...I continue to be amazed by just how effective order aggressive transformers are at solving a wide range of problems.
Our operating expenses grew both year-over-year and sequentially... The biggest driver of the increase was R&D as we continue to invest in AI-related initiatives.
- Vaibhav Taneja
There needs to be some Hollywood story where they show actually the problem is manufacturing...