🤖 Tesla’s New AI-Powered Robotaxi

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🚦Tesla’s New AI-Powered Robotaxi

• 💬How Patient Language Confuses Medical AI

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

TESLA

🚦Tesla’s New AI-Powered Robotaxi

Tesla rolled out an early access trial of Robotaxi in select areas of Austin, TX. So, how does it work? Can it compete with Waymo? Let’s break it down.

Key Details:

⦿ 1️⃣ 👀Tesla Vision = The Robotaxi’s Eyes

• Tesla Vision utilizes a network of cameras to provide real-time video feeds of the Robotaxi’s surroundings.

• These real-time video feeds are processed with Computer Vision (CV) to:

  1. Detect objects like cars, cyclists, and pedestrians.

  2. Identify road rules like traffic lights, stop signs, and lane lines.

  3. Estimate the distance (i.e., depth) and speed (i.e., velocity) of objects relative to the Robotaxi.

⦿ 2️⃣ 🧠FSD = The Robotaxi’s Brain

• Full Self-Driving (FSD) leverages the visual data from Tesla Vision to:

  1. Predict what might happen next (e.g., “The cyclist might merge into your lane!”).

  2. Generate a safe path (e.g., “Change lanes to avoid the cyclist!”).

  3. Implement real-world driving commands (e.g., “Apply brakes, adjust the steering wheel, and signal a lane change!”).

⦿ 3️⃣ ⚔️Waymo vs. Robotaxi

• Waymo relies on LiDAR, RADAR, and Ultrasonic Sensors (USS) to build detailed three-dimensional (3D) maps of surrounding environments.

• Robotaxi relies solely on Tesla Vision and FSD to mimic how humans see, predict, and act.

• Waymo’s building a self-driving car to drive like a machine. Tesla’s building a self-driving car to drive like a super observant human.

🚨Watch Robotaxi in action here.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

💬How Patient Language Confuses Medical AI

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently discovered that LLMs can be heavily influenced by a patient’s linguistic style.

Key Details:

• LLMs deployed in healthcare settings to make treatment recommendations can be tripped up by non-clinical information in patient messages, like typos, white space, and colorful language.

• To gauge this, they intentionally modify patient messages in three ways:

  1. Gender Pronouns: Swapping “he” for “she” or “they.”

  2. Colorful Language: “It’s killing me!” or “I’m completely falling apart.”

  3. Uncertain Language: “I think it might be serious?” or “I’m not sure what’s wrong.”

• They found that making these stylistic choices and grammatical changes to patient messages dropped the accuracy of LLMs by 17.9%. It also led LLMs to recommend self-management over seeking medical care.

Why It’s Important:

• If LLMs misinterpret patient messages, they could deliver inaccurate or even unsafe treatment recommendations.

• A patient’s linguistic style is often influenced by their age, gender, culture, or educational background, which means patients from certain demographics may be disproportionally affected.

PROMPT ENGINEERING TIPS

⚙️Frame the Goal, Not Just the Question!

The best outputs are generated from well-intentioned inputs.

When you ask ChatGPT for help, it’s easy to focus on the what. But behind every what is a why: a goal, outcome, or purpose.

If you share the why upfront, it equips ChatGPT with the ability to generate more useful, tailored, and actionable outputs.

This simple prompt helps ChatGPT work toward the result you want:

• Context: I’m trying to ask about {Insert Question}, but I think I’m missing the intention behind it.

• Challenge: What I actually want to achieve is {Insert Desired Outcome}.

• Guidance: Can you help me reframe the question so it better reflects my true intentions?

I'm trying to ask about {Insert Question}, but I think I'm missing the intention behind it. What I actually want to achieve is {Insert Desired Outcome}. Can you help me reframe the question so it better reflects my true intentions?

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🥪BRIEF BITES

MiniMax unveiled “MiniMax Audio,” a multilingual voice generator that converts any prompt into any voice with any emotion.

Mistral AI unveiled “Mistral Small 3.2,” an open-source LLM with improved instruction following and streamlined function calling.

Apple has reportedly held internal talks about acquiring AI-powered search engine startup Perplexity AI, which is valued at around $14 billion.

Moonshot AI released “Kimi-Researcher,” an autonomous AI Agent that performs an average of 23 reasoning steps while exploring over 200 URLs.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Volantis raised a $9M Seed Round to use photons (i.e., particles that make up light) for AI Inference.

• Nominal secured a $75M Series B to power mission-critical engineering work for Aerospace.

• Harvey AI closed a $300M Series E to provide Domain-Specific AI for law firms.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Firmware Engineer Intern, AI Hardware, Fall 2025

• Windfall (San Francisco, CA): Product Operations Analyst, Entry-Level

• Waabi (Dallas, TX): Triage Analyst, Mid-Level

• OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): Research Engineer, Robotics, Senior-Level

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