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AGI = Artificial General Intelligence, for those not that deep in the AI realm, is “a theoretical, advanced form of AI that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities across virtually all tasks, including learning, reasoning, and planning.”

It is also what most of the AI companies are racing towards, to get to something even resembling AGI first. Not a bad race to be in the lead in, for Tesla.

The Tesla's works council vote we talked about last week in Giga Berlin? It went well for Tesla, with union IG Metall not getting a lot of seats, which should be good for Giga Berlin’s future. Here is Andre Thierig's post about it:

Sendil Palani, Tesla's Vice President of Finance, has announced he is leaving the company after 17 years. That is a long time with a company, and must feel like a lifetime in a company like Tesla. He leaves on good terms, obviously:

Tesla has published a patent for what could be the seat in the upcoming next-generation Tesla Roadster, a one-piece composite seat frame.

We also get the very first hint of Tesla robotaxi plans in Europe: Tesla is looking to hire an Electrical Design Engineer at Giga Berlin for Robotaxi Autonomous Vehicles, per a job posting.

"The Low Voltage Hardware team at Tesla designs circuit boards which control hundreds of devices (motors, actuators, sensors, LEDs, etc) across all electrical systems (steering, seats, doors, HVAC, safety, chassis, lighting, etc) in Tesla’s autonomous robotaxi vehicles."

Tesla's larger Model Y L will launch in Australia and New Zealand in 2026 and in South Korea soon, too.

Tesla reduced the referral program perks in the US. Model S and Model X from the referral program. New owners also no longer get a $1,000 referral discount on a new Cybertruck Premium AWD or Cyberbeast. Instead, you now get 3 months of FSD (Supervised).

Tesla has also reduced the loyalty discount to $500 (from $1,000) that existing Tesla owners get when buying a new Model S, Model X or Cybertruck (Cybertruck dual-motor AWD not eligible).

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Ashlee Vance — yes the original Elon Musk biographer — took a trip to Tesla Semi factory. The video is not fully published yet.
There are two shorts — here from the factory showing Tesla Semi cabs moving down the line, and here of the interior of a Semi.

They also posted a few images from the tour:

Dan Priestley, head of the Semi program, captioned it "Factory is epic. Manufacturing teams have high rate of install and commissioning. Noticeable changes every day."

Tesla also shared three images from Semi winter testing in Alaska:

And here's an image of someone spotting the two trucks charging in Alaska:

Tesla also just opened its first Tesla Semi Megacharger in Los Angeles. 750kW charging with seemingly upgradeable to 1.2MW and all Tesla Semi customers are welcome. This is the very first Megacharging site open to public that is not at a Tesla factory or at customers’ depot.

Hight Logistics was showing off their new Tesla Semi, with the CEO Rudy Diaz saying they plan to add more Tesla trucks to their current fleet of 25 e-trucks:

Okay, perhaps that’s enough of the Semi for today.

Video: Cybercab’s side camera washers are surprisingly strong.

Tesla has raised the base cost of its Robotaxi rides in Austin to $3.25 (from $1). The cost per mile on top of that is still $1.

This, for most cases, should still make the robotaxi service cheaper than most Uber and Waymo rides, unless on specific surge pricing, from what I’ve seen.

Tesla now runs paid ads on Facebook & IG & Threads in the US, advertising FSD Supervised. I found out quite a few details 🕵‍♂️ :

Alpharetta City, Georgia, goes down in history as the first US public body (and first in the world, really) to deploy Tesla Superchargers through their third-party Supercharger for Business program.

The four 325kW city-branded Superchargers are deployed next to the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety on Old Milton Parkway, and available to both the two Tesla Model Ys in the Alpharetta City police department fleet, and to the public.

400 Superchargers in ONE location?

Why not.

Tesla is planning an absolutely massive Supercharger expansion in Yermo, California!

Over the course of 6 phases, Tesla is set to add over 400 V4 stalls in a commercial development known as Eddie World 2. The first phase, which should begin construction sometime this year, will feature 72 V4 stalls. Canopies included, too.

bk World and Tesla have opened their first charging lounge in Spain, in Villagonzalo Pedernales, right along the E5. This 20-stall site also happens to feature Tesla’s 1,000th Supercharger in Spain, and is wrapped accordingly.

Yes, that is a pizza vending machine.

Tesla has announced that it has completed more than 500,000 installations of its solar panels worldwide, and has released a new blog post about its redesigned residential solar panels. Engineered in CA and assembled at Gigafactory NY. Here’s how Tesla wins:

Optimus: looks like Elon is also keeping an eye on Figure, the other US-based humanoid company…

Starbase at night is truly spectacular to see — they’ve literally created a city!

Pad 2 in full glory!

SpaceX says "Over the coming days, we’ll conduct a series of tests to activate Pad 2 at Starbase, exercise new propellant loading operations, and operate a vehicle with new Raptor 3 engines installed for the first time"

Elon says "Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks"

Elon also admits SpaceX almost died three times and, surprisingly, commented: "Gwynne and I didn’t tell the company, as it would have been demoralizing"

It was also surprising that Elon answered this to no other than Tom Mueller saying “SpaceX "almost died 3 times"? I guess I missed the other two”

Amazon has filed a formal petition calling on the FCC to deny SpaceX’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting data centers, going as far to claim the project would "take centuries to deploy." I mean sure, Amazon, it would take centuries for you to deploy these.

Elon says on xAI’s X Money: “𝕏 Money early public access will launch next month”

X Money is actually now in Beta and they rolled out testflight access to 1,000 users. Here's what the 𝕏 Money App (Beta) looks like. Some details:

The first person to get the access to the Beta and share it with others? William Shatner.

Yes, that William Shatner.

The Boring Company's Prufrock-2 digging machine has just emerged next to Westgate in Las Vegas. Fun facts:

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