[SPEAKER_03]: Hey everybody, I'm Zach, and I'm Jesse.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're watching Tesla Time News.
[SPEAKER_02]: Episode 647 on that, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: So this chart from similar web shows that X.com was the sixth most visited website in June with 4.4 billion monthly visits.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is up 4.6% month over month.
[SPEAKER_02]: And look at that, Xbeat, Reddit, and TikTok.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, and as Elon said, X had the highest monthly growth of any top 10 site in June.
[SPEAKER_02]: But let's remember what everybody was saying back in 2023 when Elon bought Twitter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Twitter's rebrand to X is destined to fail critics say.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it hasn't done that well, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: People hate typing in one letter into their search bar.
[SPEAKER_02]: And SpaceX AI's latest AI model, Grock 4.5, goes live today.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it has been trained on V9, SpaceX AI's new 1.5 trillion parameter foundation model.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, look, look, look, look, look.
[SPEAKER_03]: Before you not off, because I get it, these are ridiculous numbers.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're hard to comprehend.
[SPEAKER_03]: All you have to know is that Grock 4.3, which is the last model, which is amazing, by the way, was trained on their V8 500 billion parameter model.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is one third-the-size of the new 4.5.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so Elon is called Grock 4.5 Opus level, and it is SpaceX AI's first foundation model since the merger of SpaceX and XAA.
[SPEAKER_02]: Grock 4.5 has been in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla since June 28th, and according to Elon, it is faster and more token-efficient and cheaper than Grock 4.3.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am so excited to use this.
[SPEAKER_03]: They added Kircher's developer data in the supplemental training, so not the basic training, but because that had already happened, but they added it later.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I can't wait to try Grock 4.5 out in our coding.
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon said our internal assessment is that Grock 4.5 is roughly comparable to Opus 4.7 but much faster.
[SPEAKER_03]: The combination of capability, faster speed and lower cost is what makes it competitive.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are closing the loop on real-world usefulness, not benchmarks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hardcore engineers at Tesla and SpaceX find Grock 4.5 genuinely useful, which is what actually matters.
[SPEAKER_03]: Try out Grock 4.5 in cursor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I will.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then take a look at this.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is comparing it to Opus 4.8 GPT 5.5 and Poser 2.5 and Fable 5 and it does remarkably well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And on this GDP Val Benchmark, take a look at this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Grock 4.5 jumped to fourth place from 17th place in the human baseline 1,000 with a score of 1543 that is up from 1086.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's cost at about 5 cents per task is way cheaper than anthropics Opus 4.8 at
[SPEAKER_03]: He wants to have Grok, Grok's, Engineering.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next month's release will be another step-change improvement as we close the loop on solving real-world engineering problems at Tesla, SpaceX, New Orleans, and Boring Company.
[SPEAKER_03]: Grok will be able to call, imagine as a tool, an agentic mode for image video generation.
[SPEAKER_03]: As imagine keeps improving, this will be amazing for game developers, and Grok 4.5 context window will upgrade to 1 million probably by next week.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, if a lot of this is gibberish to you, that's probably because you're not using AI a whole lot, but to us who are using it, this is amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: The one million context window is huge, that's basically it's working memory.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like working with an engineer who has short term memory loss.
[SPEAKER_02]: But would you say it in a minute ago?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so like having a bigger amount of memory means that it can go for longer without, I mean, it doesn't just forget stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's supposed to summarize everything that it knows and the condensate smaller and smaller.
[SPEAKER_02]: But as you make a task larger and larger, it tends to forget important details over time.
[SPEAKER_03]: And look how Grock 4.5 does on legal benchmarks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number one, look how much cheaper than the competition.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two bucks versus 10 bucks and $19.
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon says Grock has always been very strong on law.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, and just in, here is how Grock 4.5 did on the banking benchmarks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, above Tratchy PT 5.5 and Fable 5.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I'm really excited.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can't wait for you guys to check it out too.
[SPEAKER_03]: So let us know in the comments what you think about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Chris posted FSD would be twice as useful in neighborhoods if I could actually talk to the car and tell it which driveway to pull into the same way I would with a person driving me home.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right now, there isn't really an input for telling Tesla what color the house is, or giving it specific context like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Google Maps is also notorious for putting pins on houses that aren't actually yours.
[SPEAKER_03]: It'll be so cool if I could talk to the car while going down my street and say something like, it's the White House on the left.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just pass that SUV and then have FSD remember that for next time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, and to shook Alesswami, Tesla's head of AI said, working on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, it's so you'll be able to talk to your car like a human being and be like, oh, pull over right over there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am the voice of night industry 2000's micro-processa.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, that's gonna be fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fiat, which is owned by parent company Stellantis, has just opened orders in the U.S. for the top Alino EV.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, let's get into the specs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, first the price.
[SPEAKER_03]: Starting at 13, 995.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Battery in the range.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's got a 5 kilowatt hour battery that charges at 2.3 kilowatt and about 4 hour recharge in the range.
[SPEAKER_03]: 46 miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like an E-bike.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know what 46 miles feels like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we have any bike with a bigger battery.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have several e-mites to the larger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, but it doesn't do a lot either.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're lighter than that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's talk about the size and the weight.
[SPEAKER_03]: This 99.6 inch car will definitely fit in your garage, even without cleaning it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it weighs 173 pounds.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you can almost pick it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two guys could maybe pick it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And top speed, it's got an eight horsepower motor.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, 19 miles an hour, I am speed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so is this really a road vehicle?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this isn't street legal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so you want to go faster, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, well, then just wait till the fall when a free upgrade kit is coming from Stylins.
[SPEAKER_02]: What will that do?
[SPEAKER_03]: That'll make your top polino a low speed vehicle, which in the US means that you can drive it on public roads.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but so it's going from a no-speed vehicle to a low-speed vehicle, how fast will it go with the low-speed vehicle kit?
[SPEAKER_03]: That will unlock a top speed of a blistering 25 miles an hour, and include an interior rear-view mirror, a backup camera, and a pedestrian alert system kind of like what you hear on EV's today.
[SPEAKER_03]: So let's be clear that the top Alino, which means little mouse and Italian, isn't a car.
[SPEAKER_01]: It can't use in the heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I miss what you think it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like a golf cart.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean it's very cute.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that it would be great at resorts.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think a lot of people are going to need that sunroof to just get their head in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does it have air conditioning?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It does have a cup holder though.
[SPEAKER_03]: And USB-C charging.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_02]: How many times can it charge up your phone though?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to kill a lot of people.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really know.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Tesla diner in Hollywood turns one today.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe it's already been a year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our little diner is so big.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tesla North America posted come see Tesla Optimus at Tesla diner this Thursday 11 AM to sunset.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also fountain drinks come with a complimentary souvenir cup all month long.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's so cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, it's time for the Cybertruck Roundup.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah!
[SPEAKER_03]: This Cybertruck Roundup.
[SPEAKER_03]: A Tesla Cybertruck helped protect a toddler and an infant during a chaotic 4th of July block party in Jupiter, Florida, which is near West Palm Beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: During the block party, the Cybertruck was helping to power some lights and music when an altercation happened and guns were drawn.
[SPEAKER_02]: According to the Cybertruck's owner, shots started being fired.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, people sheltered in the cyber truck and it stainless steel body supposedly deflected some of the bolts.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't wait to see if there's some video for this, but yeah, that's the beauty of this car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't hide inside most other cars during a non-profit proof unlike the movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unlike what Hollywood would have you believe.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, sorry for some SpaceX news.
[SPEAKER_03]: SpaceX, as officially requested from the Federal Communications Commission or FCC, approval to launch and operate a new generation of satellites.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a constellation of 100,000 Gen 3 starlink satellites that are even closer to Earth.
[SPEAKER_02]: They would orbit in two shells, one at about 325 kilometers and the other at 475 kilometers.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that the latency to Earth would be even less.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're going to be faster.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to have more bandwidth.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be that there will be some people who like live out of the top of a mountain on an island in the middle of the ocean We're going to have faster internet speeds than people who like live in a city true anyone said we're going to need a bigger rocket starship just in case you couldn't
[SPEAKER_03]: Figure that one out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Starlink has introduced a new starlink aviation performance antenna for airplanes.
[SPEAKER_03]: The price has gone up from 145,000 to 200,000, but so have the speeds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Air travel will now get speeds up to one gigabit per second.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see the monthly service tiers have also doubled in price.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, now that most airlines have signed up, I mean, what are they going to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's ordering more speed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: These are fire sats.
[SPEAKER_03]: They just hitched to ride on one of the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 launches door, but what are fire sats?
[SPEAKER_03]: They're four of them in orbit now.
[SPEAKER_03]: They go around Earth and they're designed to spot force fires around the globe long before we could detect them ourselves, otherwise.
[SPEAKER_03]: So in an area of just five square meters, they can detect if there's a fire starting.
[SPEAKER_03]: The goal is to have real-time wildfire updates every 20 minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just some astounding facts about wildfires that these satellites could save with early detection, wildfires cost over $1 billion annually in damage just in the U.S.
[SPEAKER_02]: It costs $1 to $2 billion annually to put them out and up to 3,500 homes and properties annually could be protected.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, 1.3 million acres a year are burned in the U.S.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this could be amazing if we can spot them early and just go over there with the garden I was put them up because normally you'd have like a watch tower You'd have like a fire tower and some guys job would be to live in the tower and just yep Look around and now we have a satellite that can do well four satellites.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can do the same thing So SpaceX just got a new customer Japan's ice base just signed an agreement with SpaceX to use 500 kilograms of payload capacity in Starship to bring cargo to the moon for lunar missions starting in 2030 I
[SPEAKER_03]: space founder and CEO Takahashi Yakamata announced we are very pleased to be able to offer the new lunar access integration service utilizing Starship's payload space, high capacity, relatively low cost lunar transport is essential to realizing the sustainable lunar economy that ice base aims to create.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now, even your dog can have Starlink.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: A smart pet technology company called Fi has just announced the world's first dog caller with Starlink so that your dog can watch Netflix and his doghouse?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, using T-Satellite with Starlink GPS, you can track your dog anywhere in the US.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it provides up to five days of battery life.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fully waterproof, and it has a feature called Phi callback, which is a training system based on sound and vibration.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wait, so you can not see your dog.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can be five miles away, and you can be like, come on back, it could be 2,000 miles away.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, I don't know if your dog can find his way back.
[SPEAKER_02]: Find his way, I mean, I think they can.
[SPEAKER_02]: How much is- I've seen the movie Homer bound.
[SPEAKER_02]: So obviously, they can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we're asking how much a cost?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is $199 plus a $189 a year membership for new customers and just a $299 flat fee for existing members.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not bad if it means losing your pooch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not cheap, but it is a satellite dog collar.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, getting to go out in the wilderness with your dog and not have to worry about losing
[SPEAKER_02]: couldn't you just use this for people?
[SPEAKER_03]: Put it on your kid, step it right on their neck.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying like the Appalachian Trail, people do get lost.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're usually like, I know 30 meters from the trail and then they they've got turned around and they are lost and they die.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good point.
[SPEAKER_02]: So according to new FAA docs and advisories, Starship Flight 13 could be happening on July 14th.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_03]: But most people who follow Starship closely are saying that they don't think Starship and Booster are currently ready.
[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe we just lightly pencil into your calendars.
[SPEAKER_03]: So wait, wait, sorry, this just in new no-tams, which are noticed to airmen just came in.
[SPEAKER_03]: US and Mexican airspace is now being cleared for Wednesday, July 15th at 5.45 central time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Usually when they do this, because this is a huge disruption to air travel, it usually means this is what they're actually going for.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it could be Wednesday, July 15th, less than a week.
[SPEAKER_03]: Six days, a Tesla and SpaceX fan back in 2024 proposed changing the name of Boca Chica Beach near Starbase, Texas to Cyber Beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: Federal officials with the U.S. Board on geographic domestic names committee didn't know that we needed that one.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll vote today on this proposal.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the proposal faces opposition from the City of Starbase, Cameron County, Texas Geographic Names Committee, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service due to historical use since 1936, I mean, it's been called Boku, Chika Beach, and so on.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's policy concerns over corporate branding because if you could start doing that, and you could have, you know, Amazon Beach, and we're going to be back.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to be back.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be back.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's already bad enough with all the ball parks right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: The City of Starbase put out the statement.
[SPEAKER_03]: The City of Starbase does not support the name change from Boku Chika Beach.
[SPEAKER_03]: We think that the current beach name is appropriate.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, to be fair, I don't think that you need the U.S. board on geographic domestic names, committee, or book it to get involved with something like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can just call it cyberbeach, which is way cooler because then when people like, I can't find it on a map or a cyberbeach, you're like, you're not in the know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, it's time for Elon's X's other week.
[SPEAKER_03]: C3 says sitting down, legacy media increased the term white supremacy by 5,296% from 2009 to 2020.
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon said, why did the media push this lie so hard?
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon said, we will continue to make refinements to the grock-built harness, and the 1.5 trillion foundation model, almost every day in response to user requests, the 2 trillion model will finish training this month and be available to customers next month.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he said, AI is advancing at an incredible pace.
[SPEAKER_03]: Peter Diamantes says everything feels impossible, right up until it's inevitable.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Elon says, like, eating a bag of marbles.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what that means.
[SPEAKER_02]: As he done.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't eat bags of marbles that's bad for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon said we will be releasing a new community notes feature that sends you an X chat message if a post you interacted with is corrected.
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