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This is very surprising as this an Elon Musk company and he has never in the history of his companies every tried to rush a timeline of a product.

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Please don't snark or post unsubstantive HN comments. Maybe you don't owe CEO cult figures better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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That's very uncalled for, it is a surprising outcome for this company to be rushed to market.

FYI, dang is the site admin.

If you weren't being sarcastic, then I completely misread your comment and am sorry.

Looks like a misunderstanding.

I think it's likely that OP was genuine and not snarky, Mr.Dang.

As in, since Musk is known to not be 'punctual' as he himself has said in his presentations, since he is known to not have these two in sync 1. Announcement of products with production dates 2. Actual product market release dates, OP may have meant he is surprised Musk seem to be rushing with Neuralink and not delaying as seem to be the case with his other companies.

Ah. If it wasn't snark, I 100% misread it and bow in humble apology. Pattern matching fail!

Ask the 5 out of the 8 founding scientists why they left..

Has anyone else done so? Are there any links or prior HN discussions you could include to help me understand what you're talking about?

Given Tesla's track record, I find that statement hard to agree with. I have no qualms necessarily with most nuts and bolts part of it, but the entire self driving division reeks of rushed compared to what the project actually requires.

What feels rushed about a custom ML chip an order of magnitude better than NVIDIA?

It's cool that Tesla made an ASIC, I guess.

I think more relevant though, would be Tesla's hype around "Autopilot" when they still can't reliably avoid parked cars.

Ok the freeway, my Model 3’s autopilot is amazing. It’s not 100% on surface streets, but it’s impressive given all the edge cases and the scale of the problem.

They get around that by saying that autopilot is not meant to pilot the car automatically.

It’s clearly marked as in development. What’s impressive to me is just how good the 80% solution they have is, even without the additional FSD package.

Is a custom chip really that big of an accomplishment for a company the size and scale of Tesla? I really don’t know. Maybe someone here has some insight into semiconductor design and fabrication and can provide some insight into just how hard it would be to build a chip similar to what Tesla has built.

It's an order of magnitude better at specific tasks compared to Nvidia.

And this isn't that impressive in the slightest.

Isn't Tesla's FSD computer best compared to Google's TPU? Both use integer operations instead of floating point and are optimized for matrix operations.

It's a great product and genuinely impressive, but you're comparing specialist vs generalist hardware. Half an order of magnitude improvements are table stakes, otherwise it's crazy not to just buy off the shelf.

My 2070 Super does 9 TFLOPs but it's paired with an 3900X which barely does 1... is my graphics card an order of magnitude better than my CPU?

Thought the guy was being sarcastic.

Did/do you work there? Is it a worthwhile place to work for a senior eng w/o much corporate experience? (15yr Bootstrap SMB, BSci academia, early stage startups, corporate retail service). (Anyone? Thanks.)

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