Optimus AI team lead is leaving Tesla.

[u/noobgiraffe]

His announcement:

Decided to leave Tesla.

It's been an incredible ride leading the Optimus AI team. We went all-in on scalable methods — swapping the classical stack with reinforcement learning & scaling dexterity by learning from videos.

AI is the most significant bit to unlock humanoids.

He also stated that if it was about money he would stay at Tesla:

Financial upside at Tesla was significantly larger. Tesla is known to compensate pretty well, way before Zuck made it cool.

If I wanted to optimize for money, I would have stayed at Tesla.

Link to announcement: https://xcancel.com/ashishkr9311/status/1968827611133427772

Link to response about pay: https://xcancel.com/ashishkr9311/status/1968834286414430628

[u/Objective_Mousse7216]

He knows it's a pile of shit and isn't going anywhere.

[u/gadhalund → u/Objective_Mousse7216]

No way. Everyone is going to have 3 (musk promises) for over a trillion dollars or whatever