Tesla loses to Meta AI executive integral to '80%' of company's future value

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Tesla (TSLA) lost its Optimus humanoid robot artificial intelligence executive slightly more than two weeks after CEO Elon Musk claimed that the Optimus product will make up around 80% of the EV giant's value in the future.

Ashish Kumar, Tesla's AI lead for Optimus, announced on X late Thursday he had decided to leave Musk's company. Kumar joined Mark Zuckerberg's team at Meta (META) as a research scientist, according to LinkedIn.

"It's been an incredible ride leading the Optimus AI team. We went all-in on scalable methods — swapping the classical stacks with reinforcement learning & scaling dexterity by learning from videos. AI is the most significant bit to unlock humanoids," Kumar wrote on X

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