Here in Australia, it's interesting how well the Tesla cars are still selling.
The model Y is still the best selling EV despite the wide choice of other brands. BYD out sell them in aggregate, but Tesla are holding their own pretty well. Of course, all the Tesla cars here are made in the Shanghai Gigafactory, but still, I don't think Chinese brand dominance is a forgone conclusion. I think the real danger is if American protectionism makes Tesla feel like they don't need to innovate any more.
Software is everything when it comes to EV's. As an American, I've had many years of experience with software from around the world. No one makes software more suited for Americans, than other Americans.
The UX of the car software is only a small portion. The actual car has a lot of software which isn't cultural.
The dashboard and UX of the car can be tailored to a culture, while the onboard processing remains the same - it's just one software update away. This is sort of a silver lining of removing physical dials and buttons and going all in with touch-screen.
just compare the landing pages for taobao or baidu to the western equivalent. UX for the asian market has wildly different expectations and best practices
How well does the self driving work over there? That's the real innovation and personally it seems to work well enough in America so I'm curious what your experience is with that.
That doesn’t sound right, why are some people same to get it and not others. As far as I’m aware you can go buy a Tesla in Australia and enable it via subscription.
Only on later HW3 cars. Older cars can still buy the subscription but get limited features (summon, etc, not full self driving). Apparently there’s work underway to support older cars
China is bringing their more expensive cars first to make money once the market gets saturated then we might see more domination as they try to compete for more market share
Given the time to market and the date in which these labs were founded, I find it far more likely that the lag was representative of them establishing proper internal (RL etc) tooling.
The real story here is the splintering of "the west". The US doesn't want to move forward, but UK, Europe, AU/NZ all do.
It's not clear to me where Canada stands on this issue. I know they're an exporter of fuel to the US, so perhaps they are more US aligned on this?
Sadly, I think this highlights the problem with Carney's middle powers idea - it's difficult to all work together when you have competing interests.
As far as anecdotal evidence from AU, in the last 12 months the number of EVs on the road has exploded. Only a year ago, maybe a bit longer, I'd specifically notice the odd BYD here or there. Now, you can't get stuck in traffic without having a couple of them within ten metres.
Tesla's have been around the place for a while, but are also increasingly present, but are a greatly decreasing percentage of EVs.
My experience running quantised models is that they look the same at first but are all noticeably worse once the context size gets beyond anything trivial.
I've tried both 2bpw and 3bpw quants for QWEN3.8 27b, and while i do notice a difference in terms of higher rates of getting stuck in loops, they are both reasonably usable.
Are they as good as opus 5.5? No.
Are they about on par with opus 4.6? Yes.
The long run tasks i run seem to be about the same level of quality, though there are obvious differences in model styles, token budgets, etc....
You might not buy any of his products, but by visiting X you are a product he's selling to advertisers. The fact you block ads is not disclosed to the advertisers he sells to, but your regular visits absolutely are.
Ok? How much value does Twitter/X give him, and how much does my occasional visit bring?
Seriously, let's go with the old rules I used to have to follow if I got a gift from a vendor as a public employee: I need to make an equal value donation to a 503c. How much should I make the check out for? Does it matter when every dumb fuck is still throwing money at Tesla and SpaceX? Am I really the one empowering that dumbass? I think not.
I'm not a very good mathematician, but I do know a fair bit about software engineering, and with AI I've been busier than ever. I probably wouldn't be so busy if AI was better at anticipating what I actually wanted rather than making guesses no human would ever make.
This is just a short term problem though. Eventually AI will get pretty good at figuring out exactly I want and it will build that from the start. The requirement of me reviewing the AI output only lasts as long as models stay bad at anticipating my needs, which I don't think will take too much longer.
If you mean reviewing for correctness then no, a Lean proof is a much stronger guarantee than anything that can be provided by any human.
For someone who's goal in math was taking unsolved problems and working on them then it's probably over. Just like in software engineering writing code by hand is kinda over.
I love how much inside information Xiaomi are giving us on the every day challenges faced by AI labs. Before the release of MiMo 2.6 it was the RL dashboard, now this update.
The model Y is still the best selling EV despite the wide choice of other brands. BYD out sell them in aggregate, but Tesla are holding their own pretty well. Of course, all the Tesla cars here are made in the Shanghai Gigafactory, but still, I don't think Chinese brand dominance is a forgone conclusion. I think the real danger is if American protectionism makes Tesla feel like they don't need to innovate any more.
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