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by kjksf 1385 days ago
Tesla has already designed and manufactures an FSD chip that runs nn inference in the car.

This is a chip designed to accelerate nn training in their datacenter.

The effort and expense makes perfect sense if you consider:

- the costs are spread over millions of car (3 millions, today, tens of millions in the future)

- it helps them win robotaxi market that is potentially so lucrative that the cost of developing custom chips will be peanuts