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Tesla’s AI engineer flees to Google’s DeepMind
Tesla’s AI infrastructure & AI Platform Engineer Tim Zaman announced today that he’s leaving the EV maker to join Google’s DeepMind.
This is another blow to the world’s largest electric vehicles (EV) maker, which is working on large-scale AI projects including Autonomous and Full Self-Driving (FSD).
“Joined NVIDIA in 2016 and Tesla in 2019, Like family, I never thought I’d leave.” he wrote on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.
Zaman then confirmed that he will join DeeMind, Google’s Artificial Intelligence subsidiary. He will start his tenure starting December 11, 2023.
Zaman later updates his X profile description as “agi at deepening”.
Google recently launched Gemini, its biggest-ever AI large language model, designed and developed by DeepMind. The company has announced this LLM in three variants -Ultra, Pro, and Nano.
Personal news –
Joined NVIDIA in 2016, and Tesla in 2019. Like family, I never thought I’d leave.
My intuition pulls me to my next venture, that has the ingredients to change the world – again.
I’m joining Google DeepMind this Monday. Excited to be a kid among legends! pic.twitter.com/coiDfvnHFn
— Tim Zaman (@tim_zaman) December 9, 2023
All three bring AI capabilities accordingly and cover different platforms including smartphones.
The latest news broke after Ganesh Venkatramanan, who’s been leading Tesla’s most ambitious Dojo supercomputer project, reportedly left the company.
He was replaced by Peter Bannon as the new face of the Dojo project and is a former Apple executive now serving the company for the past 7 years.
For now, we don’t have any input on who’s gonna replace Tim Zaman.