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Source: Daily Economic News
Elon Musk has become the man who "brings his own traffic" .
After becoming Twitter's largest shareholder, Twitter announced that it would appoint Musk as a director, and the technology tycoon and the world's richest man will bring about changes to the social media industry, which once became the focus of Internet attention.
But when it came to the end, Musk suddenly stopped going.
Musk doesn't tweet again?
On April 11, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted, "Elon Musk has decided not to join our board. ”
In Arawal's latest tweet, he wrote: "We announced on Tuesday that Elon would be appointed to the board on the condition that the appointment be conducted and formally accepted. Elon's appointment to the board will take effect on April 9, but that same morning, Elon announced that he would no longer join the board. ”
Agrawal said he believed it was the best outcome. "Whether shareholders are on our board or not, we have and will always listen to their valuable input. Elon is our largest shareholder and we will continue to accept his advice.
Previously, according to documents disclosed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Tesla CEO Elon Musk held 73.49 million shares of Twitter's common stock, accounting for 9.1% of Twitter's common stock, which made him Twitter's largest shareholder and will join Twitter's board.
Parag Agrawal has said, "We are pleased to announce that we have appointed Musk as a director, and after discussions over the past few weeks, we believe that Musk's joining the board will undoubtedly bring great value." Musk responded that he would work with Parag Agrawal and the board of directors to work on Significant Progress on Twitter in the coming months.
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Musk is a heavy user of Twitter, with more than 80 million followers on the platform. He often shares some of his insights on Twitter, revealing the direction of his work, such as sustainable energy sources such as solar and wind energy, as well as the cross-planetary survival he has been pursuing, "self-sufficiency on Mars".
Over the years, however, some of his tweets have also gotten themselves into trouble.
In August 2018, Musk tweeted without reporting to the securities regulatory authorities: "I am considering taking Tesla private for $420, and the funds are already in place." Subsequently, Tesla's stock rose 10% in response.
This led to an investigation by the SEC. The SEC said Musk did not report the company's significant events to regulators and directly issued "erroneous and misleading" statements. In the end, Musk was fined $20 million (about 134 million yuan) and forced to resign as Tesla's chairman.
A week earlier, Musk had hinted that he might try to change the social media industry. Some investors expect Musk to take a positive stance. That could include increasing stakes or taking a controlling stake in Twitter in an effort to push for reforms.
On April 9, local time, Musk posted on Twitter: "Most of those 'top' accounts have rarely tweeted, and (even if they tweet) have published very little content." Is Twitter running out? ”
He also suggested a series of changes to Twitter Blue's premium subscription service, including options such as deep price cuts and a ban on advertising.
Musk: Production of Optimus Prime will begin as early as next year
Although Musk declined Twitter's appointment, in the technology and manufacturing industries, Musk is still doing well.
According to CNBC, Musk said Thursday that Tesla will start producing a humanoid robot called Optimus as early as next year, that is, 2023. Musk said at the opening ceremony of Tesla's new automobile assembly plant in Austin, Texas, on the same day, "We are expected to produce the first version of optimus prime robot next year." However, Tesla has not yet revealed the working prototype of the robot, so it is not clear how complicated the original version of the humanoid robot called Optimus Prime will be.
Image source: Tesla official website
Musk also revealed that Optimus Prime will eventually be able to do things that humans don't want to do, and said that the robot will bring a "rich era" for human beings. He is also optimistic that Optimus Prime will "change the world" and may even be more famous than Tesla, but "it may be hard to imagine." ”
Tesla publicly demonstrated the robot for the first time on AI Day in August 2021, also known as the Tesla Bot. According to Industrial Securities, the humanoid robot combines Tesla's AI technology, that is, automatic driving technology based on the prediction ability of the visual neural network nervous system, and the DOJO D1 supercomputer chip with extremely strong computing power, because each D1 chip is seamlessly connected together, the delay between adjacent chips is extremely low, the training module achieves bandwidth reservation to the greatest extent, with Tesla's self-created high-bandwidth, low-latency connector, the computing power is as high as 9PFLOPs (900 trillion times).
But it is worth pointing out that at last year's "Artificial Intelligence Day", Tesla mentioned the possibility of launching humanoid robots in 2022, and Musk said on Thursday that he would start producing "Optimus Prime" as early as next year, which was actually a year later than the company expected.
The reporter noted that when Musk first announced the Tesla humanoid robot, he said that the robot would be based on the chips and sensors used in Tesla's self-driving electric vehicles. According to Musk, Optimus Prime is 5 feet 8 inches (about 173 centimeters), weighs 125 pounds (about 56 kilograms), walks at 5 miles per hour (about 8 kilometers per hour), can lift up to 45 pounds (about 20 kilograms) of items, and has a screen on the head so that users can get useful information.
Last November, Tesla posted a number of new jobs related to Tesla's humanoid robot project on the job page of its official website, mostly in California. At that time, most of these new positions were related to robot hardware and software development, including autonomous research and development engineers, software engineers, embedded firmware engineers, etc.
Previously, the outside world thought that the robot was just Tesla's artificial intelligence recruitment tool, but Musk said on the earnings call in January this year that the development of humanoid robots will be the most important work this year. He also said that over time, Tesla's robotics business even has the potential to surpass the car business.
However, the American technology media The Verge once said in an article that the current global humanoid robot research and development of the head company for Boston Dynamics , but even Boston Dynamics, did not call its robots "research and development", let alone any concept of commercial deployment, Musk tried to surpass Boston Dynamics in a year of decades of technology accumulation, surprising.