I have a strong suspicion that this is a purposeful leak to hype up OpenAI's product. It wouldnt't be out of character for some of the people involved, and it's the kind of thing that rampant commercial (and valuation) focus can bring with it.
These guys smell so much like Tesla it's not even funny. Very impressive core tech, and genuinely advancing knowledge. But the hype train is just so powerful that the insane (to put it mildly) claims are picked up without any sense of critical thinking by seemingly intelligent people. They're both essentially cults at this point
Agreed, but IMHO it is sort of justified for Tesla.
The size of its hype matches the size of the ICEs entrenchment in its moat. These have outsize influence on our economy, but climate change (and oil depletion) is quite inevitable. It takes irrational market cap to unseat that part of the economy being prisoner of its rent. And some allocators of capital have understood that.
The list of ICE car manufacturers making EVs is longer than my arm. All the European ones have staked their future on EVs. I think VW (the irony) was lobbying for a faster phaseout of ICEs in Europe, because they're well positioned to take over the EV market if ICEs are banned faster than 2035 :-)
It really wasn't. Musk kept making promises on insane deadline and missing them. Anyone with a lick of sence could see that EVs would take decades to reach the main stream and would have huge issues with the raw materials required to make it the transition possible. E.g. Building four more electricity grids worth of capacity to replace gas stations.
stock is down for both tesla and this argument since beginning of 2021, as most ICE car OEMs can now sell you a pretty good EV that, if you have driven a car before, is easier to use than a tesla
This, especially given the timing. The drama must have quite disturbed the momentum they had, and this piece of prototype-teasing has all to reassure their market. It projects new advancements of untold impact, stoking the greed. And of course it is not verifiable. The show must go on.
I don’t think that’s the case, but it would explain why the article is so bad. I genuinely have no idea what they are trying to do, but every detail is clearly wrong.
