Part 9/13:
Data as the Foundation: The Scale of Tesla's Advantage
Elon Musk highlights that approximately one in 10,000 miles driven by Tesla vehicles yields valuable data for training AI systems. This indicates that the fleet's scale and data collection capacity are unparalleled, giving Tesla an insurmountable head start in perfecting autonomous driving.
He contrasts Tesla with other manufacturers and startups, noting that most cannot match the infrastructure, data volume, or computational resources Tesla has dedicated to this problem. Tesla employs thousands of high-powered GPUs (like the H100s from Nvidia) to train and validate models at an industrial scale, ensuring continuous improvement.