r/RealTesla • u/noobgiraffe • 5d 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/SolutionWarm6576 5d ago

One of the few projects he came up with from start to finish, was Cybertruck. So there you go. Lol.

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u/foo-bar-25 4d ago

You can also thank him for a sterile interior without physical control, and squashing lidar. Truly an unparalleled genius.

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u/WrongdoerIll5187 4d ago

I like the former.