Elon Musk

4 entries between October 2020 and June 2025.

Every entry

  1. Tesla starts a limited robotaxi service in Austin

    Tesla began a limited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas on 22 June 2025 with about 10 Model Y cars running Full Self-Driving software and a human safety monitor in the front passenger seat. Riders and reporters recorded wrong-way driving and drop-offs in intersections.

  2. Future of Life Institute letter calls for a six-month pause

    The Future of Life Institute published “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter” on 22 March 2023, asking every laboratory to stop training systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. It gathered more than 30,000 signatures.

  3. Tesla shows its first Optimus humanoid robot prototype

    At Tesla’s AI Day in Palo Alto on 30 September 2022, Elon Musk and the engineering team showed a working prototype of the Optimus humanoid robot, nicknamed “Bumble C”, which walked onto the stage and waved. The 2021 event had shown only a dancer in a costume.

  4. Tesla sends Full Self-Driving Beta to a small group of drivers

    Tesla began sending a Full Self-Driving beta update on 20 October 2020 to a small group of drivers it called expert and careful, adding city-street steering, turns and lane selection to existing highway Autopilot features.