Ex-Tesla Optimus Engineer Departs, Cites Missing Foundations for Physical AGI

A Tesla Optimus engineer announced he left the team months ago, reflecting on work on low-latency visuo-motor systems and sim-to-real control, and noting that physical AGI still awaits fundamental breakthroughs in video models and scaling.

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