Friends who are following the technology circle must have known that the annual Tesla 2022 AI Day event will be held in Palo Alto, California on September 30, 2022.

Friends who follow the technology circle must already know that the annual Tesla 2022 AI Day ( Artificial Intelligence th) event will be held in Palo Alto, California on September 30, 2022 (expected to be October 1, Beijing time). According to reliable news, the prototype of the highly anticipated humanoid robot, Tesla Bot, is expected to make its debut and may be named Optimus (Optimus Prime). At the same time, the latest progress in Tesla's autonomous driving technology and Dojo supercomputer may also be announced on the same day.

Review of the AI ​​Day event on August 20 last year, the release of Tesla Bot is a big big Easter egg. According to previous introduction, the height and weight of Tesla robot is close to an adult (1.72 meters high and 56.6 kg). It has human-level hands, can carry or carry heavy objects (bearing about 20 kg), can also walk in small steps (moving at a speed of 8 km/h), and has strong feedback and sensing to achieve balanced and agile movements. The screen on its face is an interactive interface for communication with people. Just one year later, Tesla will turn this easter egg into a reality, which surprised and amazed many technology fans, and of course it has also aroused widespread heated discussions among people from all walks of life.

"The initial positioning of Tesla robots was to replace people in repetitive and boring and dangerous work. But the long-term goal is to serve thousands of households, such as cooking, mowing lawns, taking care of the elderly, etc.." Regarding what this robot can do, Tesla CEO 3 Elon Musk wrote in an article published in China Netcom magazine not long ago: "You may be curious, why do we design this legged robot? Because human society is formed based on the interaction of two-legged human figures with two arms and ten fingers. Therefore, If we want a robot to adapt to the environment and be able to do what humans do, it must have roughly the same size, shape and ability as humans. "

" From now on, as production scale expands and costs decrease, the practicality of humanoid robots will increase year by year. In the future, a home robot may be cheaper than a car. Perhaps in less than ten years, people can buy a robot for their parents as a birthday gift. "Musk's outlook undoubtedly aroused the curiosity and desire to buy many fans.

Interestingly, the reason why Musk had the idea of ​​building a robot was that in addition to the discussion of many dangerous tasks such as "using robots to explore Mars " and other things, a very important point is actually due to Tesla's rapid progress in research fields such as pure vision solutions FSD, neural network autonomous driving training, D1 chip, Dojo supercomputer, etc.

wants to achieve fully autonomous driving, which means that cars must have super computing power to identify countless edge scenarios in the real world. These require artificial intelligence to solve them. It is understood that in order to achieve ultra-high computing power for artificial intelligence training, while expanding bandwidth, reducing latency and saving costs, Tesla has created the Dojo supercomputer. The single training module of the Dojo supercomputer is composed of 25 Tesla's independently developed neural network training chips - D1 chip. Since each D1 chip is seamlessly connected, the latency between adjacent chips is extremely low, the training module achieves bandwidth retention to the greatest extent, and is combined with Tesla's own high-bandwidth and low-latency connectors; in a volume of less than 1 cubic foot, the computing power is as high as 9PFLOPs (90 trillion times) and the I/O bandwidth is as high as 36TB/s.

Thanks to the independent operation ability and unlimited linking ability of the training module, the Dojo supercomputer composed of it has theoretically no upper limit performance expansion space. In practical applications, Tesla will assemble ExaPOD with 120 training modules, making it the world's leading artificial intelligence training computer. Compared with other products in the industry, its performance is 4 times higher at the same cost, 1.3 times higher at the same energy consumption, and 5 times faster in space.

Since the release of Dojo supercomputer last year, the development process of Tesla FSD (full autonomous driving capability) has continued to accelerate.At this year's shareholders' meeting, Musk revealed that the research on FSD 10.13 version has been underway for some time, and Tesla has carried out "some very important architectural improvements" including improving the complex problems when turning left. He said that Tesla is currently deploying the FSD beta version widely in North America and will launch large-scale testing of fully autonomous driving capability (FSD) software this year. The cumulative mileage of the beta version of the software has exceeded 40 million miles, and it is expected to exceed 100 million miles by the end of the year.

Since you have such a huge potential Dojo supercomputer, Tesla certainly won't just use it to "drive". "When people focus on mobile phones, they are actually serving them. Whenever we search or add information on mobile phones, they are actually building digital 'group thinking'." Perhaps in order to fight back against the remarks on the network that "artificial intelligence will be enemies of humans", Musk emphasized that artificial intelligence serves humans and is also served by humans, so it will greatly improve the quality of life. He defined this: "Artificial intelligence and humans are a symbiotic relationship of two-way services, which will benefit both digital intelligence and biological intelligence."

In fact, for the rapid launch of Tesla robot prototypes, Musk also frankly explained the reason - to attract more talents in the fields of artificial intelligence, chips, etc. to join Tesla. I believe that it will be an exciting event.

By the way, in order to cooperate with the "2022 Pudong Automobile Consumption Season" launched recently to stimulate the potential of the automobile market, Tesla is relying on major business districts to carry out various forms of consumption promotion activities, including Tesla and Manner Coffee that jointly opened 4 theme stores (October 1-October 7), namely Shanghai Century Park Store, Shanghai Xuhui Binjiang Store, Shanghai Huaihai 755 Store and Shanghai Chuangyi MIX Store. Interested citizens can participate in related activities during the long holiday and have the opportunity to receive exquisite peripheral gifts.

Interestingly, Tesla also launched a new cross-border product with Manner Coffee - "Autumn Rose Latte". In terms of publicity, Tesla released the theme short film "What can I do in my busy life?", with the slogan "Recharge, just one cup of coffee" cleverly integrating its product selling points into it.

During the National Day holiday, "Early Understand Cars" will bring you a detailed report on Tesla's 2022 AI Day as soon as possible, so stay tuned!