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Musk prices unsupervised driving at 10 billion miles of data

development2026-01-08

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Elon Musk estimated that ten billion miles of training data would be enough for unsupervised self-driving to cover the long tail.

Reported metric: 10B miles

Reporting date: 2026-01-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to January 8, 2026

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Tesla

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Welcome to January 8, 2026

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Musk prices unsupervised driving at 10 billion miles of data
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-08
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-08-ten-billion-miles-to-autonomy
Claim: Elon Musk estimated that ten billion miles of training data would be enough for unsupervised self-driving to cover the long tail.
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- Welcome to January 8, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-8-2026
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