Elon Musk's New Product Will Collapse Industries: Why Digital Optimus Rewrites Software Labor
MacroHard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI Tesla project coming as a part of Tesla's investment agreement with xAI. Grok is the master conductor navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct Digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 seconds of real-time computer screen video and keyboard mouse actions. This will run very competitively on the super low-cost Tesla AI 4 chip, which is 650 bucks, paired with the relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. That's 16 hours of content with over 100 practitioners from companies like Nvidia and Microsoft. Digital Optimus is running locally, doing the vast majority of the work on its own on those AI 4 chips in the Teslas, watching screens, clicking buttons, filling out forms, navigating software. Overall, this points to specialized systems and vertically integrated players shaping what comes next far more than surface narratives suggest.
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