Tomorrow, August 19th, Tesla will be holding an event dubbed ‘AI Day’. AI Day is expected to be similar to what Tesla showed off at their autonomy event in 2019. On Autonomy Day Tesla showed off their Hardware 3.0 FSD computer.
We know that Tesla will talk about and possibly show off Dojo, their new AI-focused super computer that will be utilized to help accelerate Tesla’s venture into car autonomy.
Tesla Autonomy Day 2019
We also expect Tesla to talk about their recent switch to vision AI and how they’re leveraging cameras to determine object size and distance. Some of what we see tomorrow may be similar to Andrej Karpathy’s keynote that he gave back a couple months ago at the CVPR conference.
It’s rumored that Tesla may be approaching the limits of the compute power in HW3, which comes with all new Teslas today.
We may see Tesla announce a new FSD computer, hardware version 4 tomorrow. If we do, expect it to have many times the commute power of HW3, but it may not be available for some time. If Tesla announces new hardware, it’s unclear whether it could be retrofitted into current vehicles.
Electrek received an invitation that says Elon will be giving a keynote speech as expected and there will be several hardware and software demos.
As Elon often says, these events are used as recruiting tools. Tesla shows everyone what they’re working on and the breakthroughs they’re making in the hope to attract new talent.
Tesla will live stream the event tomorrow at Tesla.com or you can watch it below. We’ll cover any major announcements here. The event is scheduled to start at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET.
Update: AI Day just wrapped up and there were a couple surprises. In addition to talking about Dojo Tesla also announced Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot. Tesla also talked a little bit about their new FSD computer, hardware 4.0.
