Billionaire Elon Musk, in a recent post on X, thanked and praised Ashok Elluswamy, the India-born director of AI/Autopilot software at Tesla, for his contributions to the electric car company's growth.
Responding to a note Elluswamy wrote on X, Musk said that without him and their "awesome" team, Tesla would just be "another car company."
"Thanks, Ashok! Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software," Musk wrote.
"Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist," Musk added.
Ashok Elluswamy is a South Indian engineer who was hired after Musk put out a tweet looking for candidates for the Autopilot team.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he is a robotics engineer with experience in computer vision and perception through planning and control.
He earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from the College of Engineering, Guindy, in Chennai.
Ashok later completed a Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon University in the US.
