Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday evening the company’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day for 2021 will take place on Thursday, August 19. Musk did not clarify whether the event will be held in-person or would be virtual. It’s likely Tesla will stream the event for all to see.
Tesla AI Day August 19th
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2021
The company uses its AI Day to share more details about the current and future status of its Full Self-Driving software and Tesla’s Neural Net.
Update July 28, 9:56pm PDT: Musk confirms, “Convincing the best AI talent to join Tesla is the sole goal” of AI Day.
Convincing the best AI talent to join Tesla is the sole goal
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2021
Last August, Musk said, “Tesla is developing a NN training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data. It’s a beast! Please consider joining our AI or computer/chip teams if this sounds interesting.”
A truly useful exaflop at de facto FP32
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 16, 2020
Back in April, Musk said AI Day would “probably” take place in late July, but now the company has decided on a date in August.
Probably late July
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2021
Recently, Tesla moved its Autopilot and FSD over to ‘Pure Vision’, which relies only on cameras and no longer on radar.
Tesla recently launched FSD subscriptions priced at $199 USD per month, albeit the addition of FSD beta 9 which includes Autosteer for city streets, is not available for the public yet.
Back in June, Tesla detailed its third and most recent cluster of Autopilot supercomputers, as detailed by Tim Zaman, the company’s Autopilot Artificial Intelligence Engineering Manager:
At #Tesla Autopilot we are bringing up our 3rd cluster – one of the biggest supercomputers in the world. We're scaling fast and hiring, if interested please DM (ml/py/cpp/gpus/cuda/react/devops/sre) https://t.co/EwN5vHZaCe pic.twitter.com/H5QiLkklCf
— Tim Zaman (@tim_zaman) June 21, 2021
Tesla has typically used its AI Day to also seek and attract talent to assist the company in improving Autopilot and FSD:
In general, anyone interested in working on physical-word AI problems, should consider joining Tesla. Fastest path to deploying your ideas irl.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2021
