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Fri. 10/11 - Cybercab

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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All the headlines from Tesla’s robotaxi event. AMD unveils the chip it wants to use to go toe to toe with Nvidia. Are people actually making money building GPTs or not so much? And in the longreads, rebuilding Notre Dame as period accurately as possible. Sponsors: Go to Hensonshaving.com/ride and enter RIDE at checkout to get 100 free blades with your purchase. (Note: you must add both the 100-blade pack and the razor for the discount to apply.) Links: Tesla reveals 20 Cybercabs at We, Robot event, says you’ll be able to buy one for less than $30,000 (TechCrunch) Tesla's Cybercab Is Here (Wired) Tesla Robovan has something the Cybertruck definitely does not (T3) AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell (CNBC) Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month (The Verge) OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch (Wired) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Google’s Nobel Haul Puts Spotlight on Changing Focus of Scientific Research (Bloomberg) The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame (GQ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, October 11th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:08.6

Today, all the headlines from Tesla's Robotaxie event.

0:12.4

A. M. D. Unveails the chip it wants to use to go toe-to-to-toe with NVIDIA.

0:16.0

Are people actually making money building GPTs or not so much?

0:20.0

And in the long reads, rebuilding Notre Dame as period accurately as possible.

0:24.7

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:26.7

So the robot taxi event was late last night and when I say late I mean late it was almost an hour late starting

0:41.0

Elon Musk revealed the Tesla cyber Cab saying you will be able to buy one for under $30,000 and that he expects the robot taxi to be in production before 2027, quoting Tech Crunch. Tesla has finally revealed its cyber cab and it looks like a smaller

0:56.0

sleeker two-seater cyber truck and while many were expecting there to be at least one prototype

1:01.4

of a robot taxi with no steering wheel or petals.

1:04.5

Tesla CEO Elon Musk delighted his fans with a lineup of 20 vehicles.

1:08.8

The flashy We Robot event took place at Werner Brothers Discovery Studio on Thursday before walking

1:13.9

on stage Musk walked over to a robot taxi which opened its gull wing doors and did a

1:18.4

short demo around the well-maintained streets of the Hollywood studio.

1:21.7

Musk repeated previous claims that the cost of autonomous transport will be so low,

1:26.0

it will be akin to, quote, individualized mass transit.

1:29.0

He said he believed the average operating cost of the cyber cab will be over time around 20

1:35.0

cents per mile and you will be able to buy one musk said adding that the cost of

1:39.4

the vehicle would be below thirty thousand dollars musk also noted he expects Tesla to start doing, quote,

1:45.0

unsupervised FSD in Texas and California

1:47.7

next year with the model three and model why.

1:50.8

He acknowledged that he's too optimistic about timelines sometimes, but said he

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