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Elon Musk

The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of xAI and its Grok assistant. Co-founder and first major backer of OpenAI, he left it in 2018 and then sued it, accusing it of betraying its original non-profit mission.

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In March 2023, he signed the call for a six-month pause in AI development; four months later, he launched his own AI company.

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    In 2015, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would complete a fully autonomous Los Angeles to New York trip. It is now 2026. He has done it several times, but with human supervision. Waymo, meanwhile, carries passengers with no one at the wheel in 5 cities. Cruise is dead. Here is the honest state of a long-announced revolution that is finally unfolding, but differently.

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