Tesla, Inc.

Tesla is one of the most aggressive AI adopters among publicly traded companies, positioning AI not as a supplementary tool but as the core operating principle across its vehicle autonomy, robotics, and energy businesses. Its 10-K filings explicitly describe the company's mission as 'bringing artificial intelligence into the real world' through Full Self-Driving (FSD), Robotaxi, and the Optimus humanoid robot, with proprietary neural networks, custom inference chips, and the Dojo supercomputer underpinning its AI stack. Tesla's FSD system operates with the driver nominally responsible for oversight, placing it in a 'heavy' AI implementation category with limited real-time human review of AI outputs. The company's 2024 layoff of over 14,000 employees (10%+ of workforce) was framed around cost reduction and competition rather than AI substitution, and no direct causal link to AI displacement has been formally evidenced.