"Decided to leave Tesla. It's been an incredible ride leading the Optimus AI team. We went all-in on scalable methods - swapping the classical stack with reinforcement learning & scaling dexterity by learning from videos. AI is the most significant bit to unlock humanoids. Financial upside at Tesla was significantly larger. Tesla is known to compensate pretty well, way before Zuck made it cool. If I wanted to optimize for money, I would have stayed at Tesla."
"All the best and thank you for your contributions to Tesla. Dude, sorry for all the negative comments your getting but thank you for your contributions to Tesla and best of luck to you in your new position"
Ashish Kumar departed Tesla after just over two years to take a Research Scientist role at Meta. Kumar led the Optimus AI team and prioritized scalable methods, replacing the classical stack with reinforcement learning and advancing dexterity by learning from videos. Kumar called AI the most significant element to unlock humanoid robots. Tesla supporters reacted with confusion and speculation about financial motives, which Kumar denied, noting that Tesla offered greater financial upside and that he would have remained if money were the primary driver. Several followers publicly thanked him for his contributions and wished him well.
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