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Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas, designing and manufacturing electric vehicles, stationary energy storage systems, solar panels, and AI and robotics systems.

Founded2003United States
HQAustinUnited States
Valuationok. $1,57 bln🦄market cap (market cap) · 2026
01 · About

Tesla

Founded 2003 · Austin, United States

Tesla is one of the most advanced companies developing artificial intelligence systems that operate in the physical world. Its primary areas of research are autonomous driving and humanoid robotics.

The FSD system uses neural networks trained on vast datasets collected from Tesla's global vehicle fleet. These models process camera imagery and make real-time driving decisions.

Unlike many competing companies, Tesla has chosen an approach based primarily on computer vision, forgoing lidar in its autonomous driving systems.

The company's second strategic project is the Optimus humanoid robot, which leverages technologies originally developed for autonomous vehicles — including visual perception, motion planning, and real-time control.

AI model training is carried out on Dojo, a specialized computing infrastructure designed by Tesla specifically for training neural networks on large-scale video datasets.

  • Martin Eberhard

    Co-founder

    American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tesla Motors in 2003 and served as its first CEO until 2007.

  • Marc Tarpenning

    Co-founder

    American engineer, co-founder of Tesla; previously co-founded e-reader company NuvoMedia.

  • Ian Wright

    Co-founder

    New Zealand–American engineer, an early Tesla co-founder; later founded electric powertrain company Wrightspeed.

  • Elon Musk

    CEO

    South African–born American entrepreneur; CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of xAI and The Boring Company, owner of X Corp.

  • J. B. Straubel

    Co-founder, former CTO

    American engineer, Tesla co-founder and long-serving CTO; founder of battery recycling company Redwood Materials.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Austin · 8 offices
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2003
2003founded
134,785 employees as of December 31, 2025 (per 10-K report filed with the SEC)employees
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

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07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

3 classification · 8 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onYesTSLA
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