Elon Musk Just Announced a Humanoid “Tesla Bot”

During this week’s AI Day event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the car company is working on a humanoid prototype we will get a first glimpse at “sometime next year.” To build its robot assistant, the company will draw from existing experience with car manufacturing robotics as well as its AI-powered computer chips that… Continue reading Elon Musk Just Announced a Humanoid “Tesla Bot”

Build Anything With This AutoCAD Programming Certification Bundle

Good design isn’t just pleasant to live and work in, it can literally save your life. And many buildings are first assembled not on the site but within a virtual environment with computer-assisted design (CAD) that makes it easy to ensure a design is both within zoning codes and within the bounds of physics. The… Continue reading Build Anything With This AutoCAD Programming Certification Bundle

RepairSmith Raises $42M in Series B Funding

RepairSmith, a Los Angeles, CA-based technology startup offering a mobile solution for automotive repair and maintenance, raised $42m in Series B funding. Backers included TI Capital, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche Ventures, and Spring Mountain Capital. RepairSmith has also appointed Ziad Ghandour of TI Capital and John L. Steffens of Spring Mountain Capital to its board of directors. Previously appointed board of directors include Andreas Joerg and Thomas Vogel of Mercedes-Benz AG.   The company intends to… Continue reading RepairSmith Raises $42M in Series B Funding

Tesla unveils Dojo supercomputer: world’s new most powerful AI training machine

At its AI Day, Tesla unveiled its Dojo supercomputer technology while flexing its growing in-house chip design talent. The automaker claims to have developed the fastest AI training machine in the world. For years now, Tesla has been teasing the development of a new supercomputer in-house optimized for neural net video training. Tesla is handling… Continue reading Tesla unveils Dojo supercomputer: world’s new most powerful AI training machine

Partners Group to sell data solutions firm Straive to Baring Private Equity Asia …

Swiss private equity firm Partners Group has agreed to sell Singapore-based content and data solutions provider Straive, formerly known as SPi Global, to Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA), according to a statement. Financial details were not disclosed, but an earlier Bloomberg report said the deal was around $1 billion. Partners Group had acquired a majority… Continue reading Partners Group to sell data solutions firm Straive to Baring Private Equity Asia …

Facebook teams up with India’s Indifi to help provide loans to small businesses

Facebook is partnering with an Indian online lending firm to help provide loans to small domestic businesses, its country head said on Friday, as part of a push to bring more businesses to advertise on its platform. The social media giant is joining hands with Indifi to help provide loans ranging from Rs 500,000 rupees… Continue reading Facebook teams up with India’s Indifi to help provide loans to small businesses

Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app in favor of Google Assistant

Google has confirmed it’s shutting down the standalone “Android Auto for Phone Screens” app with Android 12. Instead, anyone who wants a driving-friendly interface for their Android phone should use the Google Assistant driving mode, which is available within Google Maps, or the native Android Auto interface available in select cars. “For those who use… Continue reading Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app in favor of Google Assistant

Top four highlights of Elon Musk’s Tesla AI Day

Elon Musk wants Tesla to be seen as “much more than an electric car company.” On Thursday’s Tesla AI Day, the CEO described Tesla as a company with “deep AI activity in hardware on the inference level and on the training level” that can be used down the line for applications beyond self-driving cars, including… Continue reading Top four highlights of Elon Musk’s Tesla AI Day

Musk: The Tesla Bot is coming

Remember that weird Will Smith movie about robots? Yeah, neither do we. But Elon Musk does. Tesla is developing a 5’8” Tesla Bot, with a prototype expected sometime next year. The news comes during Tesla’s inaugural AI Day, which was streamed on the company’s website Thursday night. The bot is being proposed as a non-automotive… Continue reading Musk: The Tesla Bot is coming