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☆ Elon Musk dropped his Open AI lawsuit, but he isn't done with Sam Altman and the AI race yet
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewElon Musk might have withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its cofounders on Tuesday, but he certainly isn't giving up on winning the AI race just yet. Musk cofounded OpenAI with its current CEO, Sam Altman, but left its board in 2018. Shortly after the announcement, Musk threatened to prohibit Apple devices at his companies. "If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies," Musk wrote in an X post. Related storiesRepresentatives for Musk and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Elon Musk says AI has no 'use' at SpaceX — at least for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX "basically uses no AI." "I mean, oddly enough, one of the areas where there's almost no AI used is space exploration," Musk replied. "So SpaceX uses basically no AI, Starlink does not use AI. At X, Musk integrated his AI chatbot Grok — similar to ChatGPT — into the social media platform. Musk also considered using AI to help summarize news on the site.

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☆ Elon Musk is keeping investors' dreams of a Tesla robotaxi alive
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

This is the Tesla Musk is selling to Wall Street, and he's telling anyone with doubts to stay away. "If somebody doesn't believe Tesla's going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company," Musk said on the earnings call. In a shareholder deck that Tesla published before the call, the company featured a "preview of ride-hailing in the Tesla app." At an AI Day in August 2021, Musk said Tesla would build a humanoid robot, now known as Optimus. "No matter what, even if I got kidnapped by aliens tomorrow, Tesla will solve autonomy, maybe a little slower but it would solve autonomy for vehicles at least," Musk said.

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☆ Elon Musk is throwing the distant dream of a 'sentient' Optimus robot at Tesla's shareholders
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk doesn't think Tesla should be viewed as just another auto company. Musk told investors on Tuesday that Tesla's Optimus robots are its most valuable asset. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementTesla's Optimus robots could become the company's most valuable asset, says the company's CEO Elon Musk. "As I've said before, I think Optimus will be more valuable than everything else combined," Musk said in an earnings call on Tuesday.

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☆ Boston Dynamics just unveiled a fully electric, freakishly flexible humanoid robot
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Boston Dynamics showed off a fully electric version of its humanoid robot Atlas on Wednesday. The robotics company retired its hydraulic humanoid robot, Atlas, on Tuesday but then posted a video on Wednesday debuting its new, fully electric Atlas. "We designed the electric version of Atlas to be stronger, more dexterous, and more agile," the company said. Boston Dynamics says the fully electric Atlas "will be stronger, with a broader range of motion than any of our previous generations." AdvertisementAtlas may have even helped inspire Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus.

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☆ A global scramble to make humanoid robots is gearing up to be the 21st century's space race
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Joshua Zitser | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Humanoid robots are symbols of power and technological capability, a geopolitics expert says. An incident earlier this month involving a Saudi humanoid robot inappropriately touching a female reporter might not at first seem even remotely connected. AdvertisementHumanoids are visual representations of breakthroughs in AIIn Italy, the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia is working on iCub, a research-grade humanoid robot. AdvertisementChina wants to take the leadWhen it comes to humanoid robots, China is vying for the top spot, so it's no wonder other nations are getting nervous. "The vast magnitude of the market offers an unmatched chance to test, improve, and expand the uses of humanoid robots," he said.

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Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Tesla after trimming its profitability forecasts. The analyst has a price target of $500, which implies upside of more than 20% over the next 12 months. — Hakyung Kim 6:51 a.m.: JPMorgan raises CrowdStrike price target after earnings beat CrowdStrike is managing to grow quickly while delivering strong results, says JPMorgan. The bank upgraded the retailer to buy from hold, increasing its price target to $195 from $140. — Fred Imbert 5:40 a.m.: Morgan Stanley cuts Tesla price target 2024 will be for electric vehicles, said Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas, who warns that Tesla could lose money this year.

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☆ Elon Musk welcomes competition from humanoid robot rivals: 'Bring it on'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Camilo Fonseca | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk isn't fazed by a humanoid robot startup's newly announced collaboration with OpenAI. Musk is also making a humanoid robot, Optimus, through Tesla. "Bring it on," Musk posted in response to Figure AI cofounder Brett Adcock's Thursday announcement of a collaboration with OpenAI to develop AI-powered machines. The comment was a tacit acknowledgment that Figure and OpenAI are rivals to the Tesla CEO's own AI ambitions. Musk unveiled tech startup xAI last year, which debuted AI chatbot Grok last November.

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☆ Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Founded in 2022, Figure AI has developed a general-purpose robot, called Figure 01, that looks and moves like a human. Figure's ultimate aim is for Figure 01 to be able to perform "everyday tasks autonomously." Tesla is also trying to build a humanoid robot, called Optimus, while robotics company Boston Dynamics has developed several models. Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing from OpenAI. WATCH: Tesla CEO Musk said it's more important to develop humanoid robot than new cars

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☆ Tesla's Optimus bot is looking a little steadier on its feet. Maybe the yoga stretches are paying off.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The clip appeared to show the Gen 2 version walking more smoothly than on previous occasions. AdvertisementElon Musk shared fresh footage of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, walking around a warehouse. AdvertisementGetting my daily steps in pic.twitter.com/cEE4RBNdfo — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) February 24, 2024The EV company unveiled the first Optimus prototype at the 2022 Tesla AI day. Since then, updates have shown the Tesla Optimus squatting, picking up an egg, and of course, the yoga stretches. Tesla ramped up hiring for its Tesla bot team at the end of 2023.

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☆ Elon Musk says Tesla's Optimus lab looks like something out of 'Westworld'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk told Tesla investors the Optimus robot lab looks like something out HBO's "Westworld." Musk recently posted a video of its Optimus lab showing a robot folding a shirt. AdvertisementElon Musk said Tesla's humanoid robot lab looks like something out of the HBO drama "Westworld." The caption says the Optimus lab team is made up of "roboticists" including engineers, technicians, actuator designers and robot design modelers. While little detail is known about the Optimus lab, Tesla was hiring for more than 50 robotics roles last year and many of the jobs were based in Palo Alto, California, its careers page showed.

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☆ Elon Musk's optimism about Optimus might be misplaced
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has been bigging up Tesla as a robotics powerhouse, highlighting its humanoid bot, Optimus, as a gleaming example of its sophisticated technology. It's possible, however, that Musk is being a tad over-optimistic in his humanoid robot ambitions, particularly regarding its delivery timeline. In true Musk fashion, he made some grand claims about Optimus in the investors' call. It's the most sophisticated humanoid robot that's been developed anywhere in the world." He said, "It should be impossible for any centralized control to upload malware to a humanoid robot."

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☆ Tesla set to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Tesla is set to report fourth-quarter earnings for 2023 after the bell Wednesday. Tesla shareholders submitted questions for executives to answer via the platform Say Technologies ahead of the earnings call. They're asking when Tesla plans to debut its "next-generation" vehicle, a more affordable EV referred to by fans as the Model 2. Gerber said on CNBC's "Last Call" with Brian Sullivan, that Musk was "blackmailing" Tesla shareholders, and that "the idea that he doesn't control Tesla is absurd." WATCH: Elon Musk is very much in charge of Tesla

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☆ Elon Musk wants more control of Tesla, seeks 25% voting power
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who also owns the social network X (formerly known as Twitter), said Monday that he wants about 25% of voting control over his electric vehicle business. Now, Musk is angling for even more control over Tesla. Specifically, Musk wrote on Monday, "I am uncomfortable growing Tesla to be a leader in AI & robotics without having ~25% voting control. "Unless that is the case, I would prefer to build products outside of Tesla," the billionaire executive said on X. Tesla unveiled an early Optimus prototype at Tesla AI Day in September that year, and Musk said in a post around that event: "The point of AI Day is to show the immense depth & breadth of Tesla in AI, compute hardware & robotics."

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☆ Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk says he wants a significantly larger stake in Tesla than the one that already made him the richest person on the planet. Enough to be influential, but not so much that I can’t be overturned,” Musk wrote in a post on X. Musk and the Tesla board of directors were accused of breaching their fiduciary duties for waste and unjust enrichment. Musk on Monday said he and Tesla are waiting for ruling in the case before they agree to a new pay package. But Musk said a dual-class system at Tesla was a nonstarter, blaming a “post-IPO Delaware.” It’s unclear exactly what Musk meant by that.

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☆ Top streamer Amouranth warns women not to start an OnlyFans: 'It's not good for you'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewAmouranth, one of the top streamers in the world, said she did not recommend women start doing OnlyFans in a recent stream. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. One former OnlyFans creator told Business Insider in an interview that she was left traumatized after starting her page at age 18. Optimus said it was "tempting" to start an OnlyFans page. "I would never recommend girls to start an OnlyFans.

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☆ Elon Musk's latest Tesla robot video shows it folding a shirt, but some viewers were quick to question how the video was made
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk posted a video of the Tesla robot Optimus appearing to fold a shirt. AdvertisementElon Musk admitted that a video showing Tesla's Optimus robot folding a shirt is "not yet" possible, leaving online observers to wonder how the video was created at all. In a short video posted Monday to X, formerly known as Twitter, the Tesla robot stands at a table, slowly folding a black shirt, seemingly without assistance. Musk simply said of the video, "Optimus folds a shirt." Musk has shared videos of Tesla's Optimus robot in the past performing tasks like yoga stretches, squats and picking up an egg.

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☆ A hedged options bet on Tesla's run to continue into January
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-20 | by ( Jeff Kilburg | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

One word we will all say (most likely at nauseum) in 2024 is Optimus (Tesla's bipedal robot). Optimus was toting a gun and fired multiple shots on the new Cybertruck to reveal its bulletproof capabilities. Musk said Optimus would use the same technology and software as Tesla's vehicles, such as the Autopilot system and the Full Self-Driving computer. One of the multiple benefits germane to Tesla stock would be having these Optimus bots assist on the Tesla production line. BEFORE MAKING ANY FINANCIAL DECISIONS, YOU SHOULD STRONGLY CONSIDER SEEKING ADVICE FROM YOUR OWN FINANCIAL OR INVESTMENT ADVISOR.

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☆ Elon Musk's Neuralink raises more cash ahead of human trials next year
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Neuralink has raised another $43 million, per an SEC filing, as it faces mounting scrutiny. Billionaire investor Peter Thiel's Founders Fund led the latest round, TechCrunch reported. AdvertisementElon Musk's controversial brain implant company Neuralink has raised more funding as it gears up to start human trials. The latest round was led by billionaire investor Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, TechCrunch reported. The latest funding round comes as Elon Musk faces further criticism over the deaths of monkeys that Neuralink used to test its chips.

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☆ Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a 'charismatic' CEO, but yet to deliver on big promises, analysts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk must deliver on ambitious Tesla projects to justify its stock price, HSBC analysts said. Musk has made big promises including to release its humanoid robots and building a supercomputer. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk's grandiose ideas for Tesla must come to fruition to justify its high-priced stock, HSBC analysts said. In recent years, the company has made bold pledges related to its plans for humanoid robots, a supercomputer, and fully self-driving cars. Musk is a "charismatic CEO with a cult-like following," the analysts said, adding that he also "feeds into the innovator narrative."

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☆ Tesla is hiring a bunch of designers so it can start selling humanoid robots by 2027
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's desire to launch Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, by 2027 may be closer to reality. Tesla's website shows more than 50 adverts for roles with Tesla Bot in the title. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk has high aspirations for Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus. Some of the roles listed, which are to be based in Palo Alto, California, include "Humanoid Controls Engineer, Tesla Bot," "Systems Design & Integration Engineer, Tesla Bot," and various other Tesla Bot engineers. But with some US-based competitors already testing humanoid robots in warehouses, Tesla may have some catching up to do.

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☆ China boldly claims it has a plan to mass produce humanoid robots that can 'reshape the world' within two years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

China revealed its bold plans to mass produce "advanced-level" humanoid robots by 2025. The MIIT believes that humanoid robots will be as "disruptive" as smartphones and electric vehicles. AdvertisementAdvertisementChina revealed ambitious plans to mass produce humanoid robots, which it believes will be as "disruptive" as smartphones. For example, Chinese startup Fourier Intelligence said it would start mass producing its GR-1 humanoid robot by the end of this year, South China Morning Post reported. Even Tesla is developing its own humanoid robots called Optimus, or Tesla Bot, as Elon Musk revealed in 2021.

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“We’re trying to make robots that can operate in human spaces.”Do we even need humanoids? Seemingly farther along is Tesla's Austin, Texas-based neighbor Apptronik, which unveiled its Apollo humanoid in an August video demonstration. “That led to development of a new robot that was not really a humanoid, but had several characteristics of a humanoid,” he said via an emailed message. Walking is "not the hardest problem to solve in humanoid robotics," said Geordie Rose, co-founder and CEO of British Columbia, Canada-based startup Sanctuary AI. “Forever more, human- centric robots like that are going to be part of human life.

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☆ Elon Musk warned of Cybertruck headaches, consumers' debt woes, and a 'stormy' economic backdrop on Tesla's earnings call. Here are his 14 best quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk tackled a wide range of topics during Tesla's third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. The world's richest man and CEO of the electric-vehicle maker underscored the difficulties of scaling Cybertruck production, touted Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot over Boston Dynamics' mechanical dogs, and trumpeted his cost-cutting efforts, according to a transcript provided by AlphaSense/Sentieo. Tesla's Optimus robot appearing to do yoga. (Musk was describing Tesla's focus on cutting the cost of car parts by even a few cents.) Tesla is "not going to sink," says Elon Musk.

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