Tesla’s AI director gives insights into Autopilot’s computer vision and neural net development

Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s director of AI and computer vision, is currently hard at work trying to improve Autopilot by training Tesla’s neural net with incredible amounts of data from Tesla’s fleet.
He took a break from it to give some…

Byton secures investment from CATL, closes with $500M

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Electric car startup Byton has closed its latest round of financing. It collected half a billion dollars from investors. the latest bing CATL that joins the likes of China’s FAW. Byton, led by former BMWi manager Carsten Breitfeld, is about to present their second concept. It has been round B of financing for Byton and […]

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Kia to offer Soul in Europe as electric car only

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Kia has announced to keep its Soul lineup exclusively electric in Europe. The Koreans made the decision against the backdrop of falling sales of the fossil-fuelled versions of their little car. A turbo Soul called the Final Edition marks the change. Kia have made up their mind and so there will be no other Soul […]

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Tesla Roadster’s ‘SpaceX package’ with rocket thrusters could actually work

This weekend proved to be a fruitful one for Elon Musk’s Twitter followers and fans of the next-generation Tesla Roadster, as the billionaire entrepreneur discussed, in honest-to-goodness seriousness, how the electric car maker would utilize SpaceX technology to make the upcoming all-electric supercar an absolute monster on wheels. Needless to say, there was quite a […]

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