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Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual 8 Mar 2024 Rocket trajectories have been planned using model-based optimization of command sequences since computers existed, essentially since the early 1960s. Yann LeCun · Factual · 8 Mar 2024 Other
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual 8 Mar 2024 Current LLMs can do none of understanding the physical world, persistent memory, reasoning and planning, or only in a very primitive way. Yann LeCun · Factual · 8 Mar 2024 AI capabilities
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual 8 Mar 2024 LLMs, including BERT-style bidirectional ones, exploit self-supervised learning, and LeCun has been a very strong advocate of self-supervised learning for many years. Yann LeCun · Factual · 8 Mar 2024 AI capabilities
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual 8 Mar 2024 Training a base LLM is currently very expensive and difficult, so only a few companies can do it properly. Yann LeCun · Factual · 8 Mar 2024 Economics and markets
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 28 Feb 2024 DeepMind has always bet on generality and learning as the core of its techniques, focusing on reinforcement learning, search and deep learning. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 28 Feb 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 28 Feb 2024 Demis Hassabis thinks human brains plan moves differently from AlphaGo because brains are not built for Monte Carlo tree search. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 28 Feb 2024 Science and research methods
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 28 Feb 2024 Demis Hassabis thinks that improving in one specific domain sometimes produces surprising improvement in other domains; as an example, he said that when large models improve at coding, that can improve their general reasoning. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 28 Feb 2024 AI capabilities
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 28 Feb 2024 DeepMind and Google Brain previously collaborated project by project, and now collaborate more deeply and broadly. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 28 Feb 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 28 Feb 2024 Gemini is the first product of the DeepMind–Google Brain collaboration, and its name implies twins. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 28 Feb 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Elon Musk Promise 24 Jan 2024 Tesla's first manufacturing location for its next-gen vehicle will be its Gigafactory and headquarters in Austin, Texas. Elon Musk · Promise · 24 Jan 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 1 Jan 2024 Brooks has spent his whole professional life developing robots, and his companies have built more robots than anyone else's. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 1 Jan 2024 By March 2023 it was clear that large language models were the next big thing in AI. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2024 AI capabilities
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 1 Jan 2024 In late 2022 Brooks analysed the lack of videos showing any practical-looking flights of any eVTOL vehicle, despite multi-billion dollar company valuations. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2024 Technology
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 2024 Pershing Square's hedging strategy has generated large profits that were generally reinvested in core holdings at lower valuations during market disruptions. Bill Ackman · Factual · 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 2024 Day One Investors multiplied their investment 22 times versus seven times for a zero-fee S&P 500 index fund. Bill Ackman · Factual · 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 2024 Pershing Square's NAV returns compounded at 25.3% over the last six calendar years, 1,320 bps per year above the S&P 500's total return. Bill Ackman · Factual · 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 2024 PSH's stock currently trades at a 26.3% discount to NAV. Bill Ackman · Factual · 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 2024 Pershing Square continues to maintain an energy-related hedge against a large rise in energy prices. Bill Ackman · Factual · 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 2024 SPARC has no underwriting fees, shareholder warrants or founder stock, and has 10 years to execute a deal. Bill Ackman · Factual · 2024 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Vinod Khosla Factual 13 Dec 2023 Autonomous driving in closed systems is now easy to do and to deploy. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 13 Dec 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 30 Nov 2023 OpenAI has said throughout 2023 that it expects AI progress to continue. Sam Altman · Factual · 30 Nov 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Sam Altman Factual 30 Nov 2023 OpenAI consistently said it expects AI progress to continue, even when accused of fear-mongering, marketing or regulatory capture. Sam Altman · Factual · 30 Nov 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Satya Nadella Factual 15 Nov 2023 As of November 2023, some Maia chips are powering GitHub Copilot. Satya Nadella · Factual · 15 Nov 2023 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Satya Nadella Factual 15 Nov 2023 Microsoft built responsible AI measures and guardrails into Copilot from the very beginning. Satya Nadella · Factual · 15 Nov 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Satya Nadella Factual 15 Nov 2023 Software development with GitHub Copilot is seeing a 50-plus percent improvement. Satya Nadella · Factual · 15 Nov 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Bill Gates Factual 9 Nov 2023 Microsoft Word and Google Docs cannot help you send an email, share a selfie, analyze data, schedule a party, or buy movie tickets. Bill Gates · Factual · 9 Nov 2023 Technology
Mostly true Gary Marcus Factual 26 Oct 2023 Some people, such as Marc Andreessen, are denying that there is any AI risk, long term or short term, and trying to turn whether to pursue AI safety into a debate. Gary Marcus · Factual · 26 Oct 2023 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Gary Marcus Factual 26 Oct 2023 A newly published technique shows that current LLMs can be jailbroken quickly and automatically. Gary Marcus · Factual · 26 Oct 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Gary Marcus Factual 26 Oct 2023 Gary Marcus emphasized a CERN for AI and global AI governance in April 2023 in his TED talk and in The Economist. Gary Marcus · Factual · 26 Oct 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 21 Oct 2023 Brooks said he has reported on particular autonomous vehicle rides, his or others', when he thought the vehicles had done something for which a human driver would somehow be sanctioned. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 21 Oct 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 16 Oct 2023 Markets are by far the most effective way to lift vast numbers of people out of poverty, and always have been. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 16 Oct 2023 Economics and markets
Mostly true Mark Zuckerberg Factual 28 Sep 2023 Quest 3 runs VR better than Quest 2 because its display and chip are better. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 28 Sep 2023 Technology
Mostly true Mark Zuckerberg Prediction 28 Sep 2023 Zuckerberg said he thinks Quest 3 is going to be the first mixed reality device that millions of people get. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 28 Sep 2023 Technology
Mostly true Mark Zuckerberg Factual 28 Sep 2023 Social networks are now, roughly speaking, in a period where most content is video. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 28 Sep 2023 Technology
Mostly true Nate Silver Promise 11 Sep 2023 Silver Bulletin will publish occasional paywalled posts on other topics for paid subscribers. Nate Silver · Promise · 11 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Nate Silver Factual 11 Sep 2023 Nate Silver said launching FiveThirtyEight was basically his fourth career, after management consulting, professional poker, and baseball analytics. Nate Silver · Factual · 11 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Nate Silver Factual 11 Sep 2023 On Substack, subscriptions automatically renew at the price the subscriber signed up for. Nate Silver · Factual · 11 Sep 2023 Economics and markets
Mostly true Nate Silver Factual 8 Sep 2023 The Wall Street Journal polls in partnership between a Republican polling firm and a Democratic polling firm. Nate Silver · Factual · 8 Sep 2023 Science and research methods
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 2 Sep 2023 Ray Kurzweil kind of took that idea to the next level and applied it specifically to AI. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 2 Sep 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 2 Sep 2023 That did not happen, after the President created the EPA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which aimed to prevent it. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Economics and markets
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 2 Sep 2023 Almost nothing is 40% causative of anything, apart from a very small number of exceptions. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Science and research methods
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 2 Sep 2023 AI development has a critical mass basically in two places in the world, the United States and China. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 2 Sep 2023 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Anthropic published a blog post on security stating it has a two-key system for access to model weights. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 As of August 2023, mechanistic interpretability is not nearly capable enough to verify that a model is aligned. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Existing alignment methods succeed in aligning AI systems for today's tasks. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Dario Amodei Factual 8 Aug 2023 Anthropic's initial constitution for its models drew on broadly agreed sources such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights and parts of Apple's Terms of Service. Dario Amodei · Factual · 8 Aug 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Dario Amodei Prediction 8 Aug 2023 AI models will not have enough autonomy within two years to raise alignment concerns, though that may not be far behind. Dario Amodei · Prediction · 8 Aug 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Jeremy Grantham Factual 5 Jul 2023 Since ChatGPT and October-November 2022, there has been a new little flurry of market interest in AI that is very concentrated. Jeremy Grantham · Factual · 5 Jul 2023 Economics and markets
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual 28 Jun 2023 The US is a clear outlier among developed countries in healthcare cost and outcomes. Yann LeCun · Factual · 28 Jun 2023 Other
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual 28 Jun 2023 The audience YES/NO split at the Munk Debate was 67/33 before the debate and 63/37 after. Yann LeCun · Factual · 28 Jun 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual 28 Jun 2023 In the official result of the Munk Debate on AI existential threat, the NO side (Mitchell and LeCun) won by 4% over the YES side (Tegmark and Bengio). Yann LeCun · Factual · 28 Jun 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 12 Jun 2023 The Transformer algorithm, a neural net form that works in a sort of generalized way, was a recent theoretical breakthrough. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 12 Jun 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 12 Jun 2023 As of June 2023, the U.S. government was both alarmed about deepfakes and trying to outlaw blockchains. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 12 Jun 2023 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Factual 12 Jun 2023 As of June 2023 there are chip shortages throughout the AI ecosystem, and NVIDIA cannot make enough chips. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 12 Jun 2023 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Marc Andreessen Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Andreessen said he thought the rate of AI technological improvement from mid-2023 onward would be very rapid. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 7 Jun 2023 Rodney Brooks has taken many fully driverless Cruise rides at night in San Francisco. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 7 Jun 2023 Technology
Mostly true Balaji Srinivasan Factual 7 Jun 2023 Balaji Srinivasan has created tweets, talks, podcasts, courses, articles and The Network State book. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 7 Jun 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual Jun 2023 Masked autoencoders are less successful with images and other continuous domains than with discrete domains such as language. Yann LeCun · Factual · Jun 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual Jun 2023 Probabilistic models require normalization and may become intractable for high-dimensional data. Yann LeCun · Factual · Jun 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual Jun 2023 With probabilistic models, training is confined to loss functions derived from the negative log-likelihood, such as cross entropy. Yann LeCun · Factual · Jun 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Yann LeCun Factual Jun 2023 All modules of the proposed architecture are fully differentiable. Yann LeCun · Factual · Jun 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 24 May 2023 Brooks described hundreds of driverless cars with no humans inside as driving around San Francisco 'aimlessly' 24 hours a day. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 24 May 2023 Technology
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Promise 20 Apr 2023 Google DeepMind is creating a new Scientific Board, led by Koray Kavukcuoglu with representatives from across the orgs, to oversee research progress and direction. Demis Hassabis · Promise · 20 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 20 Apr 2023 Eli Collins will join Demis Hassabis's leads team at Google DeepMind as VP of Product. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 20 Apr 2023 Field building and careers
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 20 Apr 2023 When DeepMind launched in 2010, many people thought general AI was farfetched science fiction decades away. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 20 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 20 Apr 2023 Research advances from the Brain and DeepMind teams, from Deep Reinforcement Learning to Transformers, laid much of the foundations of the current AI industry. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 20 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 7 Apr 2023 Today one can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 7 Apr 2023 Biosecurity
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 6 Apr 2023 Eliezer Yudkowsky has consistently refused for many years to publish AI timelines with detailed probabilities. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 6 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 6 Apr 2023 Yudkowsky previously thought that building intelligence would involve multiple specialized systems. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 6 Apr 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 6 Apr 2023 In principle, the task of minimizing loss on predicting human text does not stop being improvable once a system is as smart as a human. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 6 Apr 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 30 Mar 2023 Transformers were the main architectural change that gave a non-linear jump in performance, compared with earlier approaches such as RNNs. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 30 Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 30 Mar 2023 As of March 2023, leading AI systems are being trained on computers that are connected to the internet. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 30 Mar 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 30 Mar 2023 Beyond external performance metrics, there are no guardrails for determining what is inside current large AI models. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 30 Mar 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 30 Mar 2023 The basic paradigm of machine learning currently in use is that a loss function can be defined only for things that can be evaluated. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 30 Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual 30 Mar 2023 Sixty years later, AI has made progress on a number of the earlier problems discussed, such as vision, though AI systems have not yet improved themselves. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · 30 Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Gary Marcus Factual 30 Mar 2023 As of March 2023, none of the top AI labs is remotely transparent, AI governance basically doesn't exist, and there are basically no safeguards in place. Gary Marcus · Factual · 30 Mar 2023 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Gary Marcus Factual 24 Mar 2023 The OpenAI and Microsoft GPT-4 papers reveal nothing about the model's architecture or training set. Gary Marcus · Factual · 24 Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Gary Marcus Factual 24 Mar 2023 Citing Ernie Davis, Marcus said OpenAI had begun to incorporate user experiments into its models' training corpus. Gary Marcus · Factual · 24 Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Gary Marcus Factual 24 Mar 2023 Gary Marcus said that on 2023-03-23 Microsoft had put out what he called a press release masquerading as science, which claimed that GPT-4 was an early (yet still incomplete) version of an AGI system. Gary Marcus · Factual · 24 Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Mar 2023 Yudkowsky previously expected AI progress to involve more distinct discoveries, rather than scaling an existing architecture. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Bill Gates Factual Mar 2023 There is a robust debate in the computing industry about how to create AGI and whether it can be created at all. Bill Gates · Factual · Mar 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Sam Altman Promise 24 Feb 2023 OpenAI will discuss in more detail, later in 2023, independent audits of AI systems before release. Sam Altman · Promise · 24 Feb 2023 AI safety and alignment
Mostly true Scott Alexander Prediction 20 Feb 2023 Scaling AI models will continue to produce gains, though less obviously than in the past five years. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 20 Feb 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Scott Alexander Factual 20 Feb 2023 As of early 2023 nobody is talking about technological unemployment, because unemployment rates are historically low. Scott Alexander · Factual · 20 Feb 2023 AI, the economy and work
Mostly true Scott Alexander Factual 20 Feb 2023 impute.me may provide the consumer polygenic score service Scott Alexander predicted, but it has made no public waves. Scott Alexander · Factual · 20 Feb 2023 Technology
Mostly true Satya Nadella Factual 7 Feb 2023 Microsoft launched its AI-powered Bing and Edge search experience on 2023-02-07. Satya Nadella · Factual · 7 Feb 2023 Technology
Mostly true Demis Hassabis Factual 1 Feb 2023 More than one million researchers have used AlphaFold in the 18 months since DeepMind made it freely available. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 1 Feb 2023 Science and research methods
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Factual Feb 2023 The technology underlying ChatGPT was published, if he recalled correctly, in 2018. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Feb 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Eliezer Yudkowsky Prediction Feb 2023 Yudkowsky said he felt quite confident that the upper range of the untapped potential of ChatGPT-style systems is insufficient to outsmart all living humans and carry out the catastrophe scenario he worries about. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · Feb 2023 AI capabilities
Mostly true Elon Musk Factual 26 Jan 2023 Tesla FSD has accumulated about 100 million miles outside of highways as of January 2023. Elon Musk · Factual · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Elon Musk Prediction 26 Jan 2023 If 2023 has no major supply chain interruption, Tesla has the potential to produce 2 million cars in 2023. Elon Musk · Prediction · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Elon Musk Promise 26 Jan 2023 Tesla's Cybertruck will have Hardware 4. Elon Musk · Promise · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Elon Musk Prediction 26 Jan 2023 Tesla thinks demand for its vehicles will be good despite a probable contraction in the overall automotive market. Elon Musk · Prediction · 26 Jan 2023 Their own work or organisation
Mostly true Elon Musk Promise 26 Jan 2023 Tesla expects to use the Dojo computer operationally later in 2023. Elon Musk · Promise · 26 Jan 2023 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Nouriel Roubini Factual 3 Jan 2023 All the zombie institutions that survived because of negative interest rates, quantitative easing and credit easing now face rising debt servicing ratios. Nouriel Roubini · Factual · 3 Jan 2023 Economics and markets
Mostly true Nouriel Roubini Factual 3 Jan 2023 Corporate debt and shadow bank lending to companies built up over the last 10 to 15 years, and became even more extreme after Covid-19. Nouriel Roubini · Factual · 3 Jan 2023 Economics and markets
Mostly true Nouriel Roubini Factual 3 Jan 2023 Fifty percent of the world's semiconductors and 80% of high-end semiconductors are produced in Taiwan. Nouriel Roubini · Factual · 3 Jan 2023 AI compute, hardware and data
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Prediction 1 Jan 2023 Brooks said he was concerned that Starship would not be ready for the proposed 2025 crewed lunar landing, and that this would delay humankind's return to the Moon. Rodney Brooks · Prediction · 1 Jan 2023 Technology
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 1 Jan 2023 NASA's current plan is for Artemis 2 to take astronauts to lunar orbit in May 2024, followed by Artemis 3 landing two astronauts on the Moon in 2025. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2023 Technology
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 1 Jan 2023 In essence, ChatGPT picks the most likely next word given the preceding words, whether from the user's prompt or its own generated output. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2023 AI capabilities
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“The first manufacturing location for this will be at our Gigafactory and headquarters in Austin, Texas.”

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO 24 January 2024 Tesla Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript (Motley Fool)

Tesla's first manufacturing location for its next-gen vehicle will be its Gigafactory and headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

No deadline is given, so this is judged at the time of evaluation. True: production of Tesla's next-generation vehicle (the low-cost, next-generation-platform vehicle referred to in January 2024, including a robotaxi such as Cybercab if it is built on that platform) began first at Giga Texas in Austin. Mostly true: production started first at Giga Texas, with a minor difference such as the vehicle variant. Mixed: the evidence is split, for example with near-simultaneous starts at Austin and another site. Mostly false: the plans changed so that the next-generation vehicle was built first elsewhere or on existing lines, with Austin playing only a partial role. False: production first started at another factory, or the next-generation vehicle was cancelled without being made in Austin.

Evidence

  1. Tesla begins Cybercab robotaxi production at Giga Texas Yahoo Finance · 24 April 2026
    “Tesla has begun manufacturing its Cybercab robotaxi at its Giga Texas facility, CEO Elon Musk confirmed during the company's Q1 2026 earnings call and on his social media platform X.”
  2. Cybercab Begins Production, but Elon Musk Says It Will Be 'Very Slow' to Start - CNET CNET · 25 April 2026
    “On Thursday, Tesla posted on CEO Elon Musk’s social media site X, stating, “Cybercab in production now at Giga Texas,” referring to a Tesla factory near Austin, Texas.”
  3. Tesla spending skyrockets as Cybercab, Semi, Megapack production timeline slips | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 22 July 2026
    “Tesla started making the first production Cybercabs at its factory in Austin, Texas, earlier this year but said in the letter that it’s still building out the manufacturing lines for the Semi and Optimus.”
  4. Tesla Cybercab - Wikipedia Wikipedia
    “In February 2026, Tesla announced the first Cybercab production vehicle had been produced at the Gigafactory Texas near Austin.”

Reasoning

Several independent sources report that Tesla started production of the Cybercab robotaxi at Giga Texas in Austin. E4 dates the first production vehicle to February 2026, E1 and E2 report production there by April 2026, and E3 reports that production started earlier in 2026. None of the evidence shows next-generation vehicle production starting first at any other factory. The rating is mostly true rather than true because the evidence covers only the Cybercab variant. It does not confirm that the Cybercab is built on the low-cost next-generation platform described in January 2024, or that a consumer low-cost model began production in Austin first.

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Elon Musk, “Tesla's first manufacturing location for its next-gen vehicle will be its Gigafactory and headquarters in Austin, Texas.” (said 24 January 2024). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_6ada2a1ea080, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_6ada2a1ea080

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