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All this to...train a model? Having worked with automakers that agonize over pennies on a component how does Tesla amortize this much expense, if they even achieve full self-driving at all?


> Having worked with automakers that agonize over pennies on a component how does Tesla amortize this much expense, if they even achieve full self-driving at all?

Or Elon is using the resources of one company to do work for another company (?):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

* https://electrek.co/2024/04/03/elon-musk-xai-poaches-enginee...


The $1 billion spent on Dojo amortized over 2 million cars sold per year is $500 per car. I'm betting it's viable for more than a year.


Maybe the point is to just continue to be able to point to FSD as some figure thing that you are working on. That should keep investors happy!

Once they’ve built this cluster, maybe they can make money renting out compute or something.


It's a plant not a product.




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