Elon Musk reveals Tesla is making its own AI chips for self-driving cars - and he claims the technology will be the 'best in the world'
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- Tesla is making AI chips for its autonomous vehicles.
- CEO Elon Musk broke the news on Thursday at a company party following an intelligence conference.
- Jim Keller, the company's vice president of hardware, indicated that producing the chips in-house could allow Tesla to make them much more powerful at a fraction of their current cost.
Tesla is producing AI chips for its autonomous vehicles, according to CNBC.
CEO Elon Musk broke the news on Thursday at a company party following an intelligence conference in Long Beach, CA. "Jim is developing specialized AI hardware that we think will be the best in the world," Musk reportedly said, referring to Jim Keller, Tesla's vice president of hardware.
Musk offered no specific details about Tesla's chip development efforts, though Keller indicated that producing AI chips in-house could allow Tesla to make them much more powerful at a fraction of their current cost.
Musk also claimed that fully-autonomous vehicles will be on the road in the next two years.
The competition to develop self-driving technology has become fierce in recent years, involving both traditional car companies like Ford and GM, as well as tech companies like Alphabet and Apple and ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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@jekbradbury asks what's missing in current AI tech and whether Tesla use open source existing stacks or custom. Jim notes the efficiencies gained by specializing and removing overheads between components. Elon/@karpathy note this can give 10x the power at a tenth the cost.
- Smerity @ NIPS2017 (@Smerity) December 8, 2017
Zaremba et al. (as I know him ) asks the timeline for self driving cars. @elonmusk makes a bold statement of two years for full self driving, three years for an order of magnitude better than humans. These gains are not binary, they can still be incremental even in driving.
- Smerity @ NIPS2017 (@Smerity) December 8, 2017
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