Elon Musk’s xAi has just released the beta version of Grok to Premium+ subscribers and unlike ChatGPT, it has real-time access to X info from users, thus matching (or surpassing in some cases) the capabilities of ChatGPT-3.5. This tool was created to gather feedback and ensure that his team builds AI tools that benefit all of humanity and useful to people of all backgrounds as well as political views.
Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot can now perform yoga and sort objects autonomously, but still has a ways to go before attempting Zoidberg’s scuttle dance like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas. One thing is for sure, Elon Musk is ramping up hiring specifically for the Tesla Bot division, as the company posted several jobs this past week.
It’s official, the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy’s Booster 9 has successfully completed a static fire test of its 33 Raptor engines, paving way for the Haven-1 commercial space station launch. There were a few hiccups such as not running for the full 5-second duration, but rather 2.74-seconds, and four of the main engines also shut down prematurely.
SpaceX successfully completed a full-pressure water deluge test of its new Starship flame deflector at the Super Heavy launch site at Bosa Chica, Texas this past Friday. This flame deflector is basically designed to diffuse heat, sound as well as energy generated by orbital test flights of Super Heavy.
Several of Elon Musk’s prototypes have been spotted at various locations, but now, the first Tesla Cybertruck production model has rolled off the assembly line at Giga Texas after years of delays. This EV was first introduced back in 2019 and during the May Tesla shareholder meeting, Elon Musk said that the company would like to manufacture a 250,000 Cybertrucks per year, depending on demand.
Elon Musk officially announced today the formation of X.AI, an artificial intelligence company that will attempt to understand the true nature of the universe and reality. This company, separate from Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, aims to make use of innovative techniques as well as analyses including Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, and μTransfer.
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Elon Musk has agreed to fight Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match. This rivalry all started after Musk posted a Tweet that he would be up for a cage match if Zuckerberg is. The Meta CEO replied with a screenshot of the Tweet and the caption ‘Send Me Location’.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant has just received FDA approval for human trials. The coin-sized device is designed to be implanted in the skull using ultra-thin wires that connect directly into the brain. The first two applications in humans would be to attempt to restore vision and try to help people with little or no ability to operate their muscles rapidly use digital devices.
The SpaceX Starship launch went off as planned, but minutes later, it exploded at approximately 8:33 a.m. local time. Approximately at just over three minutes into flight near the Gulf of Mexico, the first stage Super Heavy booster and second Stage starship vehicle were not able to separate as planned.
