Elon Musk Mentions Shares Thank You Note To Ashok Elluswamy, The Man Behind Tesla's AI Success
Elon Musk introduced the head who leads the Tesla AI. Taking to his X (formerly twitter), Musk introduced Indian-origin techie, Ashok Elluswamy, who was the first to be appointed on Tesla’s autopilot team. Elluswamy currently lead the X platform.
In a thank you note, the tech tycoon credited Elluswamy for Tesla’s “success in AI” and autopilot software.
Must said, “Thanks Ashok! Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software. Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist”.
Thanks Ashok!
Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software.
Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist.
Btw, I never… https://t.co/7eBfzu0Nci
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2024
He also mentioned Elluswamy’s article calling Musk the “key driver of AI and autonomy at Tesla”. In the article, he said Musk has always pushed them to achieve great things even when the ideas were seemingly impossible during the time.
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He recalled about an instance of 2014, when “autopilot started on a ridiculously tiny computer”. He mentioned how Musk ask the engineering team to implement lane keeping, lane changing, longitudinal control for vehicles, curvature, etc. Many, even in the team, thought that the request was crazy. Nonetheless, he never gave up and pushed the team to achieve this very difficult goal. In 2015, beyond all odds, Tesla shipped the world’s first Autopilot system. The second closest such product only came to market many years later”.
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Elluswamy recalled the milestones covered by Tesla over the years. He noted that Musk “kickstarted the work on humanoid robots at Tesla in 2021, again before any ChatGPT or other obvious examples of the rise of AI”.
He concluded his article by saying that, “kickstarted the work on humanoid robots at Tesla in 2021, again before any ChatGPT or other obvious examples of the rise of AI”.
