Elon Musk Has Announced Tesla AI Day For August 19

AI is a big part of what Tesla does with its self-driving and it usually hosts an event dedicated to its AI capabilities which increasingly are prodigious. Elon Musk now has announced that the next "Tesla AI Day" will be held later next month on August 19. This event will be dedicated to the progress Tesla is making with its custom hardware and software stack for artificial intelligence. Tesla also uses the event as a quasi recruiting platform to get the best engineering talent in-house.

Tesla AI Day August 19th

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2021

As always, this event was announced by the billionaire on Twitter. While Tesla has been hosting events dedicated to its AI and hardware and software, it never had a name of it up until next month. "Looking at holding Tesla AI Day in about a month or so. Will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both training & inference. The purpose is recruiting," Musk had said last month. 

But now on Twitter, the mercurial CEO of Tesla cryptically tweeted, "Tesla AI Day August 19". He continued to reiterate the mission of the event as one for recruitment, "convincing the best AI talent to join Tesla is the sole goal" he said. 

Elon Musk has been gung-ho about the potential of AI in Tesla 

This presentation may not be accessible to the general public as the company may want to share confidential information for potential recruits who may have to sign NDAs. Its AI team is led by Andrej Karpathy who should be expected at the event. 

Tesla has a deep stack of machine learning and AI techniques. It trains its self-driving technology on a self-designed ARM-based supercomputer. It also has its own ARM-based self-driving chip which it feels is better than Nvidia Drive. It was designed by legendary semiconductor designer/ architect Jim Keller who helped build products at Apple, Intel, AMD and even PA Semi before it was acquired by Apple.