Want to Know: 6th of November, 2023 (Patreon)

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6th of November, 2023

■ TESLA $TSLA ($219.27, -0.31%):

- I’m sure you saw it. Matte Black Cybertruck! Franz von Holzhausen surprised everyone Saturday as he rolled through Malibu in the black wrapped truck. It looked just as good as we thought it would. Now if I can get one with the black and white interior…

- According to the Wall Street Journal, Tesla informed 11,000 team members in Giga Berlin and other facilities they will receive a 4% wage raise effective this month. Tesla will also pay a 1,500 euros ($1,609) bonus in December to offset inflation and from February raise annual wages by an additional 2,500 euros. This on the heels of Union IF Metall’s push to unionize Tesla in Europe.

- Tesla established a holding company in Barcelona, Spain. The new entity was listed in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE), the official gazette of the Kingdom of Spain.

- The HEB at Montrose Market in Houston removed their Superchargers… Per Lisa Helfman, senior director of H-E-B Public Affairs Houston, “H-E-B is committed to providing the convenience of electric vehicle charging stations at a number of our stores. We removed the charging stations at Montrose Market due to limited parking.” A move in the wrong direction?

- Giga Berlin’s main entrance is complete and Henry Hu took us through. Robots serving coffee and merch vending machines! Pics and videos in the thread.

- The Tesla Store and Service Center in Frederick, Colorado is now open! Pic in the thread.

- Tesla China is at the 6th Annual International Import Expo this week. The entire S3XY lineup is on display along with Optimus and much more. If you are in the area, check them out at booth 2.1 C6-002. Pics in the thread.

- Tesla China was the official vehicle for the Lushan Half Marathon this year. They escorted more than 7,000 participants and were used as timing cars, referee cars, and support vehicles. Pics in the thread.

FLYOVERS:
Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 6th of November, ’23. Eight new Cybertrucks at Giga Texas today. EOL roof complete. Outline of the expansion visible on the South End. 8 Cybertrucks!

Giga Berlin: The Wolfpack Berlin - Robert & Andreas, 5th of November, ’23. Phase 1 video: Main entrance is complete. We get to walk up to the front doors in the video. Highways look good after construction. Phase 2 video: Progress continues on the outer lego-buildings and the rail station in the distance.

Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 4th of November, ’23. Very foggy Saturday, but makes for a beautiful video. Just one Cybertruck in the shipping parking lot. Plenty of Model Ys. Busy as ever.

Flyover Links in Source Section of Thread.

■ SPACEX:

- This past Friday, launch 79 of Falcon 9 Starlink 6-26 took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was a record setting 18th landing for a Falcon 9 Booster! It landed on droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. 23 Starlinks deployed! Great pics in the thread.

- A massive mesh net popped up under the OLM Saturday morning. Its purpose is unknown, possibly to catch items from the OLM as work is performed to protect workers and the water deluge system. Pics in the thread.

- The walls are going up. Along Hwy 4 and the launch site the perimeter fence was removed and now a large wall is replacing it. I will limit visibility along the Hwy up close. Pics in the thread.

- Possible Road Closure for November 13th in Boca Chica!

- SpaceX is installing the crew access arm onto the new crew/cargo tower out at SLC-40 in Florida! According to Spaceflight Now, the Axiom 3 private astronaut mission is likely to be the first to use it, due to a scheduling conflict with the IM-1 Moon mission.

Countdown to 100:
- Launch 80! Tuesday, November 7th at 10:47 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Transporter 9 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Booster will land at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4).

- Launch 81! Tuesday, November 7th at 11:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-27 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Booster will land on droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.

- Launch 82! Thursday, November 9th at 8:28 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Dragon Cargo NASA CRS-29 will launch from Launch Complex 39-A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The booster will land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

- Launch 83! Sunday, November 12th at 4:08 p.m. ET, 2023Falcon 9 Mission O3b mPower 5 & 6 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. O3b mPower 5 & 6 are the fifth and sixth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES. Booster will land on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

■ STARLINK:
- Eco Defense Group’s first Starlink is active! This is their first data and signal communication ever in their work areas for the defense of rhinos and their wild habitat. Pic in the thread.

■ X:

- Lind Yaccarino meet with French Minister Delegate in charge of Digital Jean-Noël Barrot today to update him on X’s vision and work to protect the service. Per Linda, “France is a key partner for X and we are proud to support the Online Child Protection Lab, working alongside industry peers and civil society groups.”

- Internal documents reveal X's corporate structure. Elon is X Corp's "sole director" and has a special class of shares to ensure he keeps control of decision making. He can hire and fire potential Board of Directors as needed. The docs show X had roughly 1450 employees as of June 2023.

- X’s Handle Team began work on a handle marketplace for the purchase of account names left unused or abandoned. X emailed solicitations to potential buyers requesting a flat fee of $50,000 to initiate a purchases. As an example, the handle ‘acquire’ was priced at $250,000.

- Communities latest updates include sorting Pinned Communities on Home with options like Trending, Most liked, and Most recent. A small version of the Community banner is in the works to make the experience more immersive. This is shipping on iOS first.

- Verified users can now DM the X Premium account for support.

■ xAI:

- Early access to xAI's 2nd product, PromptIDE, has begun. It is an integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research. It accelerates prompt engineering through an SDK that allows implementing complex prompting techniques and analytics that visualize the network's outputs. It was created to accelerate the development of Grok. They are now making the IDE available to members of the Grok early access program.

- Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It is intended to answer almost anything and suggest what questions to ask. Grok can answer questions with humor, if you like. It has real-time knowledge of the world via X. It will also answer ‘woke’ questions that are rejected by most other AI systems. It is currently in beta and limited to the US for now. People can register to be a beta tester. Registration link in the sources section.

- Per Co-Founder Greg Yang, “Hands down best chat UI I've ever used.” Co-Founder Toby Pohlen noted, “There are also some easter eggs” followed by an orangutan emoji. Curious yet?

- There will be two versions of Grok. X embedded and a separate standalone. Grok will be a X Premium+ feature.

- Per Elon if Grok will work with Tesla, “Provided our vehicle AI computer is able to run the model, Tesla will probably have the most amount of true usable inference compute on Earth. Even in a robotaxi future, the cars will only be used for ~1/3 of hours/week, leaving 2/3 for distributed inference, like SETI.”

- Per Elon, “xAI compute is doubling every 2 to 3 months.”

■ NEURALINK: N/A…

■ THE BORING COMPANY:
- The Boring Company partnered up with the 2023 SEMA Show, Resorts World, and LVCC to support SEMA attendees. The Boring Company Vegas Loop transported over 115,000 passengers from the Convention Center to Resorts World. Pics in the thread.

- Michel hit the Riviera dig site early Saturday morning and today. He got some great footage of the Boring crew at work. After the Riviera, he hit the Westgate dig as they prepare for Prufrock to break through any day now! Exciting. Check out Michel’s pics and videos in the thread.

■ ELON NEWS: N/A...

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