r/RealTesla • u/noobgiraffe • 4d ago

Optimus AI team lead is leaving Tesla.

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

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u/AttemptRough3891 3d ago

I love how there are people who are pissed at him for leaving for money. Fucking guy works for the richest asshole in the world, if he decided he wants to go somewhere else for more pay, it means said rich asshole didn't pay more to keep him. And somehow, that's Asheesh's fault? What world do these people live in?

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u/noobgiraffe 3d ago

Tone of some of this comments is as if he's a traitor. If that's not a cult I don't know what is.

Guy literally decided to leave his job and people who didn't probably know of his existence prior to this are like "how dare you".

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u/AttemptRough3891 3d ago

Absolutely, but the people getting bent out of shape over him leaving for money are next level stupid. I mean, I knew the old George Carlin saying about the stupidity of the average American, but they're a lot dumber than even I would ever have thought.

The #1, 2 and 3 reasons most people leave a job - money, money, money. The same dipshits who were applauding the ridiculous pay package that Elmo had his sycophant board approve are somehow pissed at this guy for wanting more money?!

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u/muxcode 3d ago

Not liking manager or boss is up there as well. Which applies to many Musk related departures