Tesla is an AI & Robotics company.

Looking at it just as an electric car company, is like looking at Amazon as …

Looking at it just as an electric car company, is like looking at Amazon as an online books store 20 years ago.

This video shows current state of Full-Self Driving (for those lucky enough to be in the Beta program).

As they have dropped sensors, this is based only on cameras (vision) + AI.

"all sensors are noise; let me make a stronger statement - all those using LiDar will one day have to drop it” - Andrej Karpathy (former AI Director at Tesla)

Beyond FSD, Tesla leverages AI throughout the organisation to optimise processes wherever possible.

And the Optimus humanoid robot Proof Of Concept showed that you can "transplant" the car's brain into a bipedal robot, with a lot of synergies.

So all progress on the car front - leading to a massive shift in the automotive industry, eg robotaxis - will benefit the upcoming robot, which arguably has a higher economic potential/impact.

Not mentioning the opportunity to license its AI to other legacy car manufacturers, seeing how they struggle (not being software companies at heart and lacking the real-world data Tesla has accumulated).

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