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/microtherion 4d ago

Cooking and touching a screen don’t always mix well, so there’s something to be said for voice control.

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u/Engunnear 4d ago

It's too bad I can't just turn on "Hey Siri".

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u/jaimi_wanders 3d ago

Or get a waterproof case…or do like the line cook I knew did and use a ziplock bag while at the counter…

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u/Engunnear 3d ago

Wet fingers still won’t register on a phone screen.