Tesla pushes to build Australia’s largest

26/3/17 #TessleNews Summary

1. Tesla pushes to build Australia’s largest supercharged charging station
   Tesla said it plans to build a large EV charging station with more than 25 superchargers in McKasey, Queensland, Australia. The facility is being promoted as the largest charging hub in Australia and is part of its strategy to expand EV charging infrastructure.
   Tesla announced that it has officially ended the installation of the V3 Supercharger cabinet.
   A total of more than 15,000 V3 cabinets have been installed over the course of seven years, and all future superchargers will be converted to V4 cabinets.
2. SpaceX Succeeds in Starship V3 Stops Burning Test… Test flight scheduled for April
   SpaceX said it has conducted the first stationary combustion test of the Starship Super Heavy booster version 3 with the Raptor V3 engine. The first test flight of the Starship V3 is currently scheduled to take place sometime in April.
3. xAI expands hiring of financial experts to develop financial-specific AI
   xAI is hiring financial experts such as bankers, traders, portfolio managers, and credit analysts to enhance Chatbot Grok’s financial capabilities.
   The hired workforce will use financial model data such as leverage loans, bad debts, mortgage securities, and mortgage bonds to learn AI.
   xAI is developing software for investment professionals in parallel and building artificial intelligence systems with financial analytics.
4. Bangladesh to begin test run of Starlink satellite internet on trains
   Bangladesh has started to test run its Starlink satellite internet service on its trains. Bangladesh Satellite Company (BSCL) is working with the Railway Administration on a pilot project to allow passengers to use satellite-based Wi-Fi on the move.
   The service started on March 13th
   It is being tested on three trains: the Farzatak Express, Upaban Express, and the Banalata Express.
5. NVIDIA, Uber Push to Introduce Robotic Taxis in 28 Cities by 2028
   Nvidia and Uber announced plans to expand their cooperation in introducing autonomous vehicles and introduce robo-taxi services in 28 cities across four continents by 2028.
   The first pilot will begin in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the first half of 2027. The vehicle will be developed based on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform, the Alpamayo AI model, and the Halos operating system.
6. Nvidia Expands Level 4 Self-Driving Cooperation With Global Complete Cars
   Nvidia said BYD, Geely, Isuzu and Nissan will use the DRIVE Hyperion platform to develop Level 4 autonomous driving programs.
   It also introduces the Alpamayo 1.5 model
   It has announced that it provides a development environment including AI models for autonomous driving, simulation frameworks, and physical AI datasets.
   Cooperation is underway in a structure that supplies platforms and AI models for autonomous vehicle development.
7. Nvidia to Develop Computing Systems for Space Data Centers
   Nvidia aims to build an orbital data center
   It said it is developing a computing system called “Vera Rubin Space-1” for use in space environments.
   In the space environment, there is no convection, so the cooling method has been mentioned as a key technical challenge.
8. Nvidia Offers $1 Trillion Revenue Target For 2027
   CEO Jensen Huang forecasts at least $1 trillion in revenue by 2027. Increasing demand for large-scale computing such as AI, autonomous driving, robotics, and data centers was explained as the main background.
   Nvidia said it now supplies computing platforms that run a variety of artificial intelligence systems.