[AutonomousVehicles] Tesla AI Day will feature hardware demos and lots of technical details

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Tesla AI Day 2 will feature “hardware demos” and tons of technical details:
Elon Musk

By Simon Alvarez
Posted on September 29, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently provided a teaser on what will be happening
during the company’s AI Day 2 event this Friday. Considering Musk’s recent
comments, it appears that AI Day 2 will be filled to the brim with exciting
discussions and demos of next-generation tech.

This is not Tesla’s first AI Day. Last year, the electric vehicle maker
held a similar event, outlining the company’s work in artificial
intelligence. During the event, Tesla held an extensive discussion on its
neural networks, Dojo supercomputer, and humanoid robot, the Tesla Bot
(Optimus). Interestingly enough, mainstream coverage of the event later
suggested that AI Day was underwhelming or disappointing.

Tesla seems to be putting in some effort to ensure that AI Day 2 will be
received a bit more positively, at least with regards to hardware demos. In
a recent interaction on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk provided a short but
exciting teaser for what will transpire in the upcoming event. “There will
be lots of technical detail & cool hardware demos,” Musk wrote.

Musk’s post is quite exciting, especially since Tesla did not really hold
any product demos on last year’s AI Day. This seemed to be hinted at in AI
Day 2’s invitations, as images of the invite shared online suggested that
the event will last from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. PST on September 30, 2022.
That’s a full six hours, and only a portion of it will likely be allotted
to presentations.

What is particularly interesting about Musk’s update was his specific
mention of “cool hardware demos.” AI Day 2’s invites heavily featured two
upcoming products — the Cybertruck and the Tesla Bot (Optimus) — so it
would not be surprising if attendees of the event were allowed to interact
with the all-electric pickup truck and the robot. Both the Cybertruck and
Optimus, after all, represent Tesla’s next generation of consumer products.

As per Musk’s previous statements, the Tesla Cybertruck will be the first
vehicle in the EV maker’s lineup that will be equipped with the Hardware 4
computer. Very little is known about Hardware 4 for now, though
speculations are high that its details will be discussed in AI Day 2. The
Tesla Bot, on the other hand, has been described by Elon Musk as one of the
company’s most disruptive creations — one that can be worth more than
Tesla’s automotive business.

That being said, Tesla followers should probably brace themselves for some
negative reports following AI Day 2. Events like AI Day 2 tend to be
extremely technical, resulting in them being appreciated by Tesla’s target
audience and misunderstood by laymen and skeptics. This has happened
several times in the past, from Autonomy Day in 2019, to Battery Day in
2020, to the first AI Day event last year. These events were positively
received by individuals with technical know-how, but they were widely
panned in mainstream media.

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