As Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) navigates through fundamental challenges precipitated by economic woes, it must contend with another problem. In a span of two months, the company has lost two key executives.
What Happened: On Friday, Tesla’s AI Infra & AI Platform Engineering Manager Tim Zaman said in a post on X that he is joining Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) unit DeepMind. Zaman worked at the Elon Musk-led company for four years, beginning in 2019. He also simultaneously held the profile of “ML Foundations Engineering Manager” at X for a year after Musk bought the social media platform.
Before his tenure at Tesla, he worked as an AI infra systems software engineer at Nvidia for three years.
“I’m joining Google DeepMind this Monday. Excited to be a kid among legends!” he said in the post.
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
A Bloomberg report noted on Thursday that Tesla’s head of the Dojo supercomputer project, Ganesh Venkataramanan, left the company in November after leading it for five years. Peter Bannon, a Tesla veteran, has since taken over, it added.
Benzinga’s inquiry to Tesla regarding the report went unanswered.
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Why It’s Important: AI is key to Tesla’s autonomous driving ambitions, and the technology is used to develop and deploy autonomy on scale in its EVs and Tesla bot, among other things. Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest, which has a $2,000 price target for Tesla shares by 2027, sees robotaxis contributing to the bulk of the valuation upside for Tesla.
“Tesla, we think [is] the largest AI project in the world,” Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood said in a CNBC interview in October.
Given the importance of AI for Tesla, it remains to be seen if Zaman’s departure will pose a setback to the company’s AI ambitions. Andrej Karpathy, who served as Tesla’s AI chief, quit in July 2022, and subsequently joined OpenAI.
Commenting on Venkataramanan’s departure, Future Fund co-founder Gary Black…
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