The Tesla AI team has shared updates on its projects, including the release of Full Self-Driving (FSD) V13. According to their recent post, many Tesla customers are expected to experience FSD V13 by Thanksgiving.
In early September, the Tesla AI team set several ambitious goals, such as releasing FSD for the Cybertruck by the end of the month. They also aimed to roll out Unpark, Park, and Reverse features in FSD, along with FSD V13, by October 2024. The team achieved all its September targets, but recent posts on X indicate that V13 will arrive slightly later.
The team noted several October milestones, including deploying end-to-end highway FSD to approximately 50,000 customers with version 12.5.6.1, releasing FSD updates for the Cybertruck, and unveiling the Cybercab robotaxi at the We, Robot event.
According to Tesla AI, FSD V13.0 is expected to reach internal customers by the end of this week. Although it’s slightly delayed, the substantial improvements in V13 are likely to make the wait worthwhile.
Following is what is coming next, as per the Tesla AI team.
- Full rollout of end-to-end highway driving to all AI4 users, targeted for early next week, including enhancements in stop smoothness, less annoying bad weather notifications, and other safety improvements
- Improved v12.5.x models for AI3 city driving
- Actually Smart Summon release to Europe, China and other regions of the world
- v13 is a package of following major technology upgrades:
- 36 Hz, full-resolution AI4 video inputs
- Native AI4 inputs and neural network architectures
- 3x model size scaling
- 3x model context length scaling
- 4.2x data scaling
- 5x training compute scaling (enabled by the Cortex training cluster)
- Much improved reward predictions for collision avoidance, following traffic controls, navigation, etc.
- Efficient representation of maps and navigation inputs
- Audio inputs for better handling of emergency vehicles
- Redesigned controller for smoother, more accurate tracking
- Integrated unpark, reverse, and park capabilities
- Support for destination options including pulling over, parking in a spot, driveway, or garage
- Improved camera cleaning and handling of camera occlusions
We have integrated several of these improvements and are already seeing a 4x increase in miles between necessary interventions compared to v12.5.4.
This lays the foundation for the v13 series, and we are targeting to ship v13.0 to internal customers by the end of this week.
Most of the remaining items are independently validated and will be integrated over November in a series of point releases.
We are targeting a wide release with v13.3 with most of the above improvements for AI4 vehicles around Thanksgiving!
