Dark Energy Starman - Invested into Planet Earth's sustainability. Tesla Model X, Y, Polestar 2 Performance, Cybertruck Res, early access FSDBeta tester
dario amodei said the endgame of AI is the moment models start improving themselves - claude sonnet 5.5 just crossed that line and almost nobody noticed, while the market added $280B in AI infrastructure valuations the same week
sonnet 5.5 ran a closed development loop: specify objectives, generate architectures in natural language + code, simulate and evaluate, analyze and improve. no human engineer in the loop. a 0.51B parameter model designed by AI trained 3x faster than the human-designed baseline.
the optimization function it solved: A* = argmax E[U(A;D,C)] where U balances performance P(A), compute cost C(A), efficiency E(A), and risk R(A). it found the optimal region on a performance landscape that human architects spend months exploring manually. it navigated there in one closed loop.
the AI-designed model converged faster, reached lower final loss, and hit higher validation accuracy than the standard baseline across 200,000 training steps. reasoning on GSM8K, code generation on HumanEval, long-context on RULER - all better. all from an architecture no human designed.
the ablation study shows what matters: remove dynamic routing and you lose 22% performance. remove hierarchical layers and you lose 29%. remove expert modules and you lose 44%. sonnet found all of this without being told. it understood what to keep.
emergent capabilities scale predictably with model size from 10^8 to 10^11 parameters. sonnet mapped the entire landscape. the companies that feed this output back into their next training run will compress 18 months of R&D into one quarter.
this is not AI assisting engineers. this is AI replacing the engineering loop entirely.
Bookmark & watch today.
The model that designs the next model wins everything.
I was there Friday night in San Francisco for the @REK event, and this is something you had be in the room to get it, but I’ll try to describe it.
It hit completely differently from robot-versus-robot fights. Those are entertaining, sure, but after a while they start to feel strange. You’re empathizing with machines that aren’t conscious, don’t feel pain, and don’t feel anything. Robot versus human hits different and raw, it was an emotional rollercoaster. I felt real fear for the human fighter, and real excitement, mostly fear, and when it ended there was a huge wave of relief.
The robots were remote-controlled, of course, but the kicks were genuinely powerful. We know how power-dense those actuators are, and the human fighter took real hits to his body. The kicks from the six-foot-tall EngineAI T800 seemed nearly impossible to dodge when they were hurled in the right direction. The Unitree H1 was even harder to deal with because its dynamic balance is so good that it just refused to go down.
This could be the start of a genuinely new entertainment genre. But I can tell you this: if someone wants to fight a robot with a real AI brain and real perception, you’d need robots that are far less powerful, throttled down, and compliant. Otherwise it ends in serious injury or worse.
This is the beginning of something different in robotics and entertainment, and we need to think seriously about it before regulators use moments like this as fearmongering fodder to throttle the entire humanoid frontier. x.com/frankie_lapenna/status…
FSD v14 Lite is now rolling out to AI3 early-access customers. Based on the feedback, will rollout to more customers over the next few weeks.
This build distills the driving behavior from AI4’s v14 series into both the camera and compute config of AI3. It includes destination options and speed profiles on city roads, but more importantly significantly improved safety.
We hope you’ll enjoy it, once the build ships wide.
🇺🇸 High-end escorts in Silicon Valley are charging up to $23,000 a day, and many of their clients are working in AI
It's not just sex they're looking for; it's also real conversations with someone who can talk GPUs, AGI, crypto, startups, and biohacking.
The irony is that the people building artificial companions, AI girlfriends, and digital friends are now spending small fortunes for actual human interaction.
Source: Forbes, @annatonger / Writer: Ian
Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 x.com/i/broadcasts/1dxYljYVR…
The Osbourne effect is real. The S and X assembly lines were old school auto production. No giga casting, etc. Inefficient and space consuming. Hard to incorporate structural design changes like casting, 48V and steer by wire in 15 year old vehicle designs other than superficial stuff like paint, wheels, bumpers, interior cabin.
Harder still to convert existing production lines to the new modern build processes.
Sunset the old, repurpose the space at Fremont for C-3PO.
Produce a new large luxury sedan and suv with modernization in design / build in Austin with room for new lines. 48V, steer-by-wire, all the new stuff - name them the new S & X
Tag line: We're bringing S3XY back! Introducing the NEW Model S and Model X.
called it - just 1.5 years early
I still stand by my belief that outright FSD buyers should have a permanent transfer option
some paid ~15 years worth of subscription on HW3 vehicles. they’re the ones who paved the way for what FSD is today
I think FSD should be subscription only ($99/mo) and the cars that have the $6-15k option should have the ability to infinitely transfer it to a brand new vehicle
Increases buyer loyalty AND would make used cars with FSD more valuable instantly
What do you think @Tesla
Photo from Tehran: Protesters gather around a Starlink terminal (the only way for them to communicate with the outside world), and display photos of @elonmusk and President Trump in gratitude 👇
I had a crazy client today:
My head was splitting this morning. Too many spicy margs at the Moose.
My client is "Brad." Private equity, NYC. He shows up late, yelling at his assistant on the phone, and snaps his fingers at me to carry his skis. He’s wearing a heated vest and brand new Kastles, but is already complaining about the grooming report before we even made it out!!!
First thing he says to me: "I didn't hire you for pizza-french-fry bullshit. I ski Chamonix and Aspen. I’m paying for line cutting and steep terrain. Do not mollycoddle me or I’m getting you fired."
He then proceeded to make a really gross comment about the teenage girl working the lift ticket scanner. Just a total piece of shit.
We pack into the Tram. Big Red is crowded. Brad is literally shoving locals with his elbows to get a window spot. He turns to me and says, loud enough for the whole car to hear, "So, do you have a real job in the summer or do you just mooch off unemployment?"
We get to the top of Rendezvous. Visibility is garbage.
"Alright Brad," I say. "You said you want the steeps? You said don't baby you?"
"Give me the scariest thing on this hill,"
I lead him straight to the edge of Corbet’s Couloir.
"This is the entrance," I yell over the wind. "Since you ski Chamonix, this should be a warm-up."
He looks over the cornice. It’s a 20-foot freefall into a 40-degree chute (particularly icy today).
"Where's the ramp?" he asks.
"Ramp's for tourists, Brad. You said no mollycoddling."
I don't wait. I hop turn, send the drop, stick the landing in the soft stuff, and rip giant GS turns all the way down to the Tensleep traverse.
I stop and look up. Through the fog, I see a red speck frozen at the lip. He’s side-stepping back up the ridge and blocking the drop-in for three Teton Gravity Research guys who are filming. They are screaming at him.
I skied straight to the Village Cafe. I’m currently on my third slice of pizza and drinking a pitcher of PB while writing this.
Hope you've having a powder day - JH is great at the moment, despite some rude clients!
Corbet's Couloir pic attached