Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv...
by coffeemug on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:33PM
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The vertical integration argument should apply to Grok. They have Tesla driving data (probably much more data than Waymo), Twitter data, plus Tesla/SpaceX manufacturing data. When/if Optimus starts on the production line, they'll have that data too. You could argue they haven't figured out how to take advantage of it, but the potential is definitely there.
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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv...
by BoredPositron on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:39PM
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Agreed. Should they achieve Google level integration, we will all make sure they are featured in our commentary. Their true potential is surely just around the corner...
Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv...
by jeffbee on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:32PM
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"Tesla has more data than Waymo" is some of the lamest cope ever. Tesla does not have more video than Google! That's crazy! People who repeat this are crazy! If there was a massive flow of video from Tesla cars to Tesla HQ that would have observable side effects.
Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv...
by schiffern on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:10PM
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"More video" (gigabytes) is a straw man.
The key metric is more unusual situations. That scales with miles driven, not gigabytes. With onboard inference the car simply logs anything 'unusual' (low confidence) to selectively upload those needle-in-a-haystack rare events.