Continental Breakfast
Continental Breakfast
Happy Friday! What a time to be live. The main thing happening today is Tesla revealing its flying car. Live from 12-3 BST here’s your Order of Play.
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1:30 PM - Magnus Grimeland, Founder & CEO at Antler
1:45 PM - Jason Yeh, Co-Founder & General Partner at Patron
What’s Happening Today
Tesla has unveiled a flying car, complete with rocket thrusters that let it jump over other cars and perform barrel rolls.
At a launch event on Thursday night at a SpaceX test site in Texas, Tesla showed off the new Roadster. In one stunt, it launched vertically, performed a mid-air barrel roll over parked Teslas, then landed back on its wheels. In another, it fired its thrusters to leap over five vehicles, including a Semi truck. Musk called it a “kick flip.”
The Roadster uses cold-gas thrusters developed by SpaceX, powered by compressed air rather than rocket fuel, alongside a fan-based suction system generating up to 2G of downforce. Tesla claims 0 to 60 mph in 0.81 seconds and a top speed above 230 mph. There are three versions: a Performance model requiring a $50,000 deposit, a $250,000-deposit Thrust, and an invite-only Rocket with the full flight system.
However, Musk admitted the Roadster is “not necessarily a safety-optimised car” and that he’s “not sure it’s necessarily legal in all jurisdictions.” After at least five postponements, production is now planned for 2028, eight years after deliveries were originally promised. And the flying version isn't road-legal.
Musk says sales will be “modest” and the car won't “move the needle” financially. But with Tesla dropping its premium Model S and X to focus on robotaxis and humanoid robots, and deliveries down 2% last quarter after the US ended its $7,500 electric-car tax credit, the Roadster is a chance to revive Tesla's reputation for doing the unexpected.
We're getting into all of it on today's show at 12 BST.
etn. Insight
Synopsys chief product officer Ravi Subramanian came on the show and discussed the growing demands AI is placing on chipmakers.
For 40 years, he said, chip innovation has largely followed Moore’s law, with transistor counts doubling every 18 months. That set the pace for how “technology evolved and products evolved.” Now, “the model parameter count is doubling every four months,” creating a much steeper curve for the industry to keep up with. The innovation needed to match that pace, he said, is “unbelievable.”
Watch the full clip below.
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