Echo

“End of October, though, just so you know where it's at, we're going to be rolling it out to everybody. If you buy a new Echo device, we launched four new Echo devices yesterday. We're pretty pumped about it, or I'm pretty pumped about it, maybe. But all those …”

“Coinbase and Kobe announced that Coinbase is acquiring Echo. Yes. Echo is an angel list like platform for crypto. So they help groups of people invest in different projects. Yep. They paid three hundred and seventy five million. And so you can think of this as…”

“Remember, Tesla has this advantage very much like the Echo devices at Amazon, where they're able to crowdsource training from the users. So basically, they're learning and training their model based on all the millions of people driving Teslas every day. That'…”

“And so it's sort of this ironic twist of fate that Amazon has all of a sudden taken the lead from Google and Apple Even though Amazon, you know, famously flopped with their phone, right? Which is sort of the obvious place where you would have a voice interface…”

“And at the time, Echo didn't exist. Google Assistant didn't exist. Siri was locked up on the iPhone. And so we set out to build an open technology that allowed us to replicate that experience.”

“So, ten million devices were shipped in 2016.”

“Somewhere between 20 to forty million are going to be Shipped in here in 2017.”