Tesla Workers Trained Autopilot To Ignore Road Signs So It Didn't Drive Like 'Robot That’s Just Following Rules'
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, as well as all kinds of artificial intelligence startups, the automaker’s profits have plunged. Now, the Tesla boss has been forced to concede that he’s not working to bring Tesla closer to his AI startup xAI amid claims that the tech firm could take a cut of the automakers falling profits
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A report last week claimed that xAI was lending its research to Tesla in order to better train the systems that run its Autopilot
and Full-Self Drive systems. As such, it was suggested that Tesla may soon pay the AI firm for its work, but now Musk has claimed that this isn’t the case and the two companies will remain distant from one another, reports Reuters. As the site explains:
The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that Tesla would license xAI’s artificial-intelligence models to help power its driver-assistance software, full self-driving technology and share some of that revenue with the startup, according to the proposed arrangement as described to investors.
“Tesla has learned a lot from discussions with engineers at xAI that have helped accelerate achieving unsupervised FSD, but there is no need to license anything from xAI,” Musk posted, opens new tab late on Saturday on his social media platform X, adding that the report is “not accurate.”
The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter whom it did not identify, said xAI would support the development of other features for Tesla, including a voice assistant in its electric cars and software to power its humanoid robot Optimus.
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The WSJ reported that xAI was pursuing a 50:50 split in revenue collected through Tesla’s autonomous driving systems
due to its extensive work on the program.
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