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Yep that's the clause. The clause itself is not that problematic for Tesla. What's problematic is that it can be changed over time, and it'd be foolish to singl
by m0zg 7y ago
Yep that's the clause. The clause itself is not that problematic for Tesla. What's problematic is that it can be changed over time, and it'd be foolish to single-source something as important as deep learning compute without the option to go elsewhere. Not to mention the rather extravagant Cloud pricing. So Tesla is taking a page out of Steve Jobs' playbook and it will control its own core tech. That's smart, especially considering that they already have bits and pieces of the IP that they'll need.
- modeless 7y agoThat clause doesn't apply at all though. It's not even for the same product. As for single-source, the models are written in PyTorch, not TPU machine code, and they're pretty standard models anyway (e.g. Resnet-50). They can easily transfer to other hardware if necessary. There's not a ton of lock-in there. It doesn't justify the massive costs of ASIC development just to avoid this nonexistent lock-in and imaginary TOS clause.