Elon Musk, known as the wealthiest person in the world and the founder of Tesla disclosed that Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy was the first to be hired as an employee for his electric vehicle company’s Autopilot team.
Elon Musk in a tweet said, “Ashok was the first person recruited from my tweet saying that Tesla is starting an Autopilot team!”
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Elon said that Ashok was the head of Autopilot engineering.
Ashok was the first person recruited from my tweet saying that Tesla is starting an Autopilot team!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2021
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He added that Andrej is the director of AI.
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Musk said that people usually gave him and Andrej too much credit.
Elluswamy was associated with Volkswagen Electronic Research Lab and WABCO Vehicle Control System before he joined Tesla.
Elluswamy was hired through social media according to Musk.
Musk had recently tweeted that his company, Tesla was looking for “hardcore Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers”.
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With this tweet, Indian-origin Elluswamy became the first to respond and be hired with Tesla.
Elluswamy holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai and a Master’s degree in Robotics System Development from Carnegie Mellon University.