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# The Path Forward for AI Startups A lot of founders are messaging each other after the SpaceXAI <> Cursor “IPO-deferred acquisition”. Common discussion topic: what is the future for independent startups? Must ~everyone ultimately be acquired by a frontier lab or go extinct?
https://x.com/russelljkaplan/status/2047077659985981616
Better AI models enable more ambitious work · Cursor
https://cursor.com/blog/better-models-ambitious-work
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges | TechCrunch
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
SpaceX and Cursor Have Explored an AI Team-up With Mistral – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-explored-collaborating-with-mistral-cursor-2026-4
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2046713419978453374
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2046713419978453374?s=20a
The structure of the deal is pretty interesting here. I think what’s happening is: 1. xAI is having trouble training a SOTA coding model (hence cofounder departures), bunch of idle GPUs 2. Cursor doesn’t have capital to blow on a $5B training run to compete with Codex/Claude 3.
https://x.com/0xrwu/status/2046721359263285478
Elon on Q1 call, confirming what he posted last week: “”AI5 chip will (first) go into Optimus and the data center. It’s looking like we’ll be able to achieve unsupervised robotaxi with AI4, which is far better than human safety, so AI5 is certainly not immediately needed in
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2047075601312633316
Elon on Q1 earnings call: – Optimus v3 is functional, but there are some aesthetic elements to be worked on. It may be unveiled in the middle of 2026. – We’re a little hesitant to show it off because we find our competitors do a frame-by-frame analysis and copy everything we
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2047070791234375765
In the Q1 shareholder deck, Tesla shared the latest picture of the interior of the Cortex 2 data center at Giga Texas, which will be used to train Optimus.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2047051071701561842
Misleading headline alert: “”Tesla Plans to Produce Humanoid Robots in Shanghai, Aiming for 100,000 Unit Capacity by End of 2026″”, except that’s not what Tesla said. Tesla VP Wang Hao said Shanghai Gigafactory has the potential to build humanoid robots. No timelines, no
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2044811653762650619
Tesla in Q1 2026 Shareholder Update: – Preparations for our first large-scale Optimus factory will begin shortly in Q2. – First-gen line designed for 1M robots/year will replace Model S/X lines in Fremont Factory, second-gen line is being prepared at Giga Texas (long-term
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2047049489874383097
Tesla published five new patents yesterday, all for the Optimus robotic hand and arm: 1. Covers cable routing through the wrist joint. The key innovation is that cables are arranged in a lateral stack on the forearm side and transition to a vertical stack on the hand side,
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2045270641210011767
Tesla showed off its first tendon-driven hand in October 2024, but demos of Optimus grasping things with integrated tendon-driven hands remain scarce. Here’s an instance of grasping action. The forearm packaging is impressively compact. Notice how the hand springs back after
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2046502804093800822
Elon enters the chat
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2046029187480449149
The contrast is striking. Tesla is inviting people to watch Optimus cheer from the sidelines at the Boston Marathon. Meanwhile, 300 humanoids from 26 Chinese OEMs actually participated in the Beijing Half Marathon. Multiple robots finished faster than the human winner, 40%
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2045720955096559954
Will we be able to code while driving our Tesla’s @elonmusk? asking for myself
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2046760673477009603
FlashDrive: Flash Vision-Language-Action Inference For Autonomous Driving – Z Lab
https://z-lab.ai/projects/flashdrive/
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