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Elon Muskยท 2025-11-16 09:47
Autonomous Driving & Safety - Tesla aims for AI-driven safety levels significantly exceeding human capabilities, potentially reaching 1,000% or more improvement with AI5 [1] - The company is considering the potential for excessive AI intelligence in vehicles and exploring solutions [2] Distributed AI Inference & Revenue Generation - Tesla envisions utilizing idle vehicles as a distributed AI inference fleet, offering owners potential compensation, such as $100-200 per month, for contributing computing power [2] - This distributed AI inference could prevent AI boredom in cars and provide additional functionality [3] Computing Power & Market Valuation - Tesla anticipates potentially possessing the world's largest AI inference compute capacity, especially with a fleet exceeding 100 million vehicles equipped with advanced AI [3] - A fleet of 100 million cars, each running one kilowatt of inference, could yield 100 gigawatts of distributed inference with built-in cooling and power electronics [4] - The market is currently undervaluing this distributed AI inference potential [5] Energy Consumption - 100 gigawatts of distributed inference represents a significant portion of the total U S electrical consumption, which is around 460 gigawatts [5] - Addressing limiting factors is crucial for Tesla's advancements [6]