Tesla is bleeding AI talent to a small new robotics start-up

Is it x.ai? They seem to steal. Each other's hardware and employees constantly, it's almost as though they aren't functionally separate companies and the SEC should look into it.

A lot of Tesla folks seemed to have gone to Rivian over the past few years

Tesla “talent” isn’t much lmfao. It’s just who can take the most abuse not actually do the job.

Tony Zhao (founder of Sunday Robots) is one of the leads on the Stanford Aloha project and had a big role in the HuggingFace LeRobot project. I have a lot more confidence in him than I do in Elon. [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2IXVwTMAAAAJ&hl=en](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2IXVwTMAAAAJ&hl=en)

Watched an analyst in data annotation move through the ranks from project management to be a senior manager within Teslas AI program. He is now at Sunday Robotics. Know of another brilliant developer who left Tesla for Huggingface. The brain drain is real.

Te only surprising part of this story is the startup is not controlled by Musk himself

Thoughts and prayers!

> I have a lot more confidence in him than I do in Elon. It's same for me, but with everyone and Elon. Regardless, despite the people who claim otherwise, Elon has nothing to do with engineering, other than mucking it up. He is definitely would not be what makes anything a success, though he might be want makes it failure.

Surely there was space in the 1 trillion dollar compensation package for elon to figure this one out, right?

yes, keep bleeding. I know several engineers/engineering managers that left the nightmare called Tesla.

Why would you work on AI, and then see it get manipulated to support Isr43l and Nazi propaganda.