The company founded by "Wonder Boy" launches chestnut eGPU docking station, which improves in-vehicle AI floating point computing by about 100 times

IT House reported on August 19 that comma.ai, an autonomous driving technology company founded by George Hotz, launched the chestnut external eGPU dock on August 12, priced at US$249 (current exchange rate is approximately 1,682 yuan), and the real machine kit (including AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB) is priced at US$799 (current exchange rate is approximately RMB 1,682). 5,399 yuan). Note from IT Home: Hotz’s online name is geohot, known as “Wonder Boy”. He is a legendary American hacker, software engineer and entrepreneur. He became famous at the age of 17 when he was the first to successfully hack an iPhone, and later went on to hack Sony's PlayStation 3. Hotz founded the autonomous driving technology company comma.ai in 2016 (he resigned as CEO of comma.ai at the end of October 2022 and exited the OpenPilot project) with the goal of bringing semi-autonomous driving assistance systems into the public eye through open source and affordable hardware. This chestnut external eGPU docking station mainly provides additional inference computing power for comma four. Officials say that when comma four is paired with chestnut, the computing power is close to that of Tesla HW4. When the on-board computer runs the openpilot AI model, the power consumption is controlled at about 10W. However, after the model scale is expanded, the original computing power gradually becomes insufficient. Chestnut increases the power consumption limit of comma four to about 100W by connecting an external eGPU. The company plans to launch the first chestnut-level driving model in the upcoming autonomous driving system openpilot 0.11.2. This model has 1B parameters and is the largest driving model released by comma.ai so far, with 30 times the number of parameters,