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For Tesla, this breakthrough strongly supports Elon Musk’s longstanding thesis that software, not hardware, is the key to achieving Full Self-Driving (FSD). Elon Musk has consistently argued that Tesla's hardware—such as Hardware 3—was already sufficient, and that software improvements would unlock the full potential of autonomous driving. If Deep Seek’s claims are accurate, it implies that simple, cost-effective computing hardware can achieve what once was thought to require exorbitantly expensive setups.