Musk open to price cuts as Tesla bets on self-driving future

Autonomy will make all of these numbers look silly," Musk said after the company reported second-quarter earnings. "They're not an AI play the way Microsoft or Nvidia is an AI play," said Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager at Tesla shareholder Globalt Investments. "They're more of an AI play the way a regular business is an AI play, except that this race to full self-driving has always been an AI issue, and it's always been based on data. Dojo AI supercomputerTesla plans to spend over $1 billion through next year on Dojo, its supercomputer to train AI models for autonomous cars, which it said will be put into production this month. Musk, who on Wednesday called himself "the boy who cried FSD," said "it is one of the hottest problems ever."