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The behind-the-scenes AI team of Tesla's Optimus Prime robot has appeared to recruit people!

起因是馬斯克在X上秀了一波擎天柱的最新走姿，引起了近3千萬網友的圍觀。

In the video posted by Musk, Optimus Prime's footsteps are relaxed, and the movements of his knees and arms look like real people:

In case people can't see the huge progress of Optimus Prime, some netizens specially turned out the early video to compare, and the number of views is higher than that of Musk himself:

Milan Kovac, vice president of Tesla, introduced that behind the Optimus Prime walk this time a pure RL simulation training program was adopted.

Musk said that progress is indeed fast, and a large number of Optimus Prime robots will appear this year.

Some netizens commented that the perceptron brings information from the atomic world to the bit world, and the actuator brings information from the digital space back to the physical space.

The Optimus Prime team members were not idle, taking advantage of the heat, retweeting the boss's tweet and taking the opportunity to call on people to join.

Let's get to know a few members~

"Optimus Prime AI Celestial" is recruiting people online

Ashish Kumar是擎天柱的AI負責人。

He is a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Jitendra Malik, who is known as the "academic grandfather" of Li Feifeizun, and is known for her research in the field of CV.

2015年，Ashish本科畢業於印度一家高校，之後到微軟位於印度的實驗室做了兩年研究員，研究方向是資源高效的機器學習演算法。

2017年，Ashish從職場重返校園，開始到UC伯克利攻讀博士，2023年7月他以ML科學家的身份加入特斯拉，一年多之後便成為擎天柱的AI負責人。

Senior Manager Julian Ibarz, who joined Tesla after leaving Google in 14 years, previously worked at Google for nearly 0 years.

Julian studied at a university in Toulouse, France, where he studied image processing and graphics computing with the highest grades.

In 2009, Julian graduated with a master's degree and worked at Siemens for two years before joining Google as a senior software engineer until he left to join Tesla.

The other two are new members who have just graduated with a Ph.D. – Russell Mendonca and Murtaza Dalal.

△左:Russell,右:Murtaza

兩人均來自卡耐基梅隆大學，並且是同一屆，但Russell畢業時間稍早，為去年9月，Murtaza則是今年1月畢業。

Russell's supervisor is Assistant Professor Deepak Pathak, who worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Pieter Abbeel, a machine learning guru and Ng's first PhD student.

Russell joined Tesla immediately after graduating.

Murtaza's mentor is Professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a PhD student at Hinton, who also served as Apple's head of AI research and one of the mentors of Yang Zhilin, the founder of the Dark Side of the Moon, during his PhD.

The news of Murtaza's joining Tesla has just been officially announced by himself (even the LinkedIn profile has not had time to update), after Murtaza interned at Nvidia and Apple to conduct robot-related research.

At the same time, Murtaza also works closely with Russell's mentor Deepak.

再往前看，兩人是UC伯克利的本科同學，並且都曾在伯克利AI實驗室17萬引大佬Sergey Levine的手下從事研究。

Musk: Next year Optimus Prime will go to Mars

Just this month, on the 23th anniversary of SpaceX, Musk released a satellite and said that when Starship is launched at the end of next year, Optimus Prime will be sent to Mars together.

If the landing is successful and successful, it is possible that in 2031 or 0 the delivery of real people to Mars will begin.

And netizens saw Optimus Prime's latest performance, and also called it the rebuilder of the Martian terrain.

At Tesla's all-hands meeting a week later, Musk also announced the mass production plan of Optimus Prime.

馬斯克表示，擎天柱今年將進入試生產階段，已經預訂了可以生產1-1.2萬台機器人的零件，今年的目標是生產5000台，明年的目標則是5萬台。

The first batch of Optimus Prime will be used inside Tesla's factories for testing and application validation, and external sales are planned for the second half of next year.

Previously, in the 10 Q4 earnings call, Musk also said that the purpose and complexity of humanoid robots may be 0 times higher than that of cars, and the training complexity may be 0 times that of cars.

But Musk believes that the cost of training is falling significantly over time, and Optimus has the potential to bring Tesla more than $10 trillion in revenue in the long run.

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