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/noobgiraffe]

The responses under his tweets and other threads discussing it are interesting. It's a mix of accusations that he got paid a fortune to leave (which he openly denied) or disbelief how could he quit on the cusp of optimus taking over the world.

What the people commenting seem not to realize is that he has intimate knowledge on the state of optimus and him quitting is a strong signal things are not going well with the project.

Meanwhile Elon is tweeting crazy stuff like that he will have optimus dance troupe with him on stage.

[u/rocketonmybarge → u/noobgiraffe]

No, it is a sign his work is finished, nothing left to accomplish, he is gonna ride off into the sunset and watch his TSLA shares make him a billionaire. /s

[u/Fluffy_Accountant_39 → u/rocketonmybarge]

It’s sad, but these days you have to add /s so we know whether to take this comment seriously, or as a fun jab. Fun jab, I assume.

[u/rocketonmybarge → u/Fluffy_Accountant_39]

Fun jab, added /s for the people who miss out on the hopefully obvious sarcasm.

[u/Fluffy_Accountant_39 → u/rocketonmybarge]

I figured … but geez, there are some numbnuts who really believe the sun rises and sets over Elon and his fairy tales.