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  • Why is Tesla FSD a Big Deal Even Before Robotaxi?

    Every Tesla FSD sale even with the price cuts is $8000 per car or $99 per month. The $99 per month is $1200 per year or $7200 for six years. Tesla has the highest profit per car of all car makers at $7000 per car. This is why Tesla FSD before robotaxi is a big

  • Baidu and Tesla Sign FSD Mapping Partnership

    Elon Musk’s visit to China has resulted in approval in principle for FSD in China and a FSD mapping partnership with Baidu. Here’s what you need to know: • Tesla Inc. received in-principle approval to deploy driver-assistance system in China • Tesla did manage to clear two of the most important hurdles: reaching a mapping

  • Jetsuit Races in Dubai

    The first ever Jetsuit races were held in Dubai about a month ago. Nextbigfuture has covered the Gravity Industry Jet suits for a few years. The jets and powerpack are attached to wearer with metal frames. They use five micro-gas turbines, two on each arm and one on the back. Their power is 1,050 bhp

  • TSCM Morris Chang Explains Taiwan's Semiconductor Advantage

    TSMC has to screw up to lose its lead in Semiconductors. Intel was in the lead for decades and then they screwed up badly and lost about 6+ years. Intel was about 2-4 years and now are trying to catch up from 4 years behind. TSMC Morris Chang is keeping it going. 30 minutes into

  • TSMC System on Wafer for Over 3.5 Times the Compute by 2027

    TSMC introduced its System-on-Wafer (TSMC-SoW™) technology, an innovative solution to bring revolutionary performance to the wafer level in addressing the future AI requirements for hyperscaler datacenters. At the TSMC 2024 North America Technology Symposium, they debuted the TSMC A16™ technology, featuring leading nanosheet transistors with innovative backside power rail solution for production in 2026, bringing

  • Chuck Cook and Whole Mars Test Tesla FSD 12.3.6

    Chuck Cook tests Tesla FSD 12.3.6 which has improved automatic parking assist. You can pick parking spots in front or behind you and the system will park the car. It can parallel park and parking perpendicular or at angles.The parking in FSD 12.3.6 is like a separate app that does not seem to be integrated

  • BREAKTHROUGH : Lightsolver Makes Ultrafast Laser Based Computers

    LightSolver, creator of a new laser-based computing paradigm, announced a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system unleashes the power of 100 lasers to solve the toughest optimization problems, challenging the processing times of quantum and supercomputers. The LPU100’s laser array represents 100 continuous variables, and can tackle problems with up to 120^100 combinations,

  • Pre-Earnings Tesla Predictions

    Brian Wang and Randy Kirk recorded this discussion four days before the Q1 earnings call on Tuesday April 23. We predicted several aspects of the earnings call but also post earnings developments. This was recorded at the same time as the reaction video to the insightful BG2 Pod that Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley made.

  • Tesla Launches Enhanced Autopilot in China

    Tesla has launched Enhanced Autopilot subscriptions in China. It is unclear if this is actually what is called FSD (full self driving) in the USA. • 699 yuan/month ($99 USD) • 1,399 yuan for 3 months ($66 USD/month) NEWS: Tesla has launched Enhanced Autopilot subscriptions in China. • 699 yuan/month ($99 USD)• 1,399 yuan for

  • NextBigFuture.com

    1. SanctuaryaI unveiled the seventh generation of its general purpose robot Phoenix. The latest generation robot and its AI control system, Carbon™, draw even closer to that of a person, with wide ranging improvements to both the hardware and AI software. The announcement comes less than 12 months after Sanctuary AI’s sixth generation robot. The

  • Support Nextbigfuture at Substack

    Nextbigfuture at substack has an in depth article on China’s Molten Salt Nuclear energy projects. China is starting the operation of its 2 megawatt molten salt prototype reactor in 2024. They are progressively scaling up to 10 MW reactors, 100 MW and then a 168 MWe modular reactor around 2030. The full substack article is

  • SpaceX Starship to Starship Fuel Transfer Test in 2025

    According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. pic.twitter.com/S6f17Rr6zy — Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) April 26, 2024 We have known that fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will test