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The Tesla approach: ship a useful product that collects your training data

Posha first had chefs train its cooking-vision model; now its customers do. Gupta contrasts Waymo (500,000 hours of supervised driving, $20B of venture money) with Tesla, which sold a useful product that gathered data at scale, and says Posha is taking the Tesla path.

“So in the early days, we had chefs alone training Posha. Now we have our customers training Posha. We possibly have the world's largest culinary vision dataset for cooking food, and we are taking the Tesla approach. Waymo spent 500,000 hours of supervised driving and $20 billion in venture capital to crack self-driving. Tesla did it a different way. Tesla said, we'll release something that's useful to consumers, also use it to collect tons of data, and then put robotaxis out.”

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