MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is the most subscribed to YouTube channel and known for his outlandish games, challenges, and life-changing prizes.
His newest video, titled “1,000 Blind People See For The First Time,” has skyrocketed to YouTube’s #1 trending video, and is praised for being one of his best acts of kindness to date. It shows the emotional moments of people having their eyesight restored and seeing for the first time. The video is in partnership with See International, a non-profit humanitarian organization aiming to provide eye care services to anyone in need of them.
In the video, MrBeast said over 200 million people are blind. The ophthalmologist in the video added, “Half of all the blindness in the world is people who need a 10-minute surgery.” Despite us having the technology readily available to solve this issue, many people around the world are unable to afford the cost.
MrBeast and friends ask the patients what they’re most excited about once their eyesight is restored. One gentleman said he was excited to see his son for the first time in years. Another lady was just ecstatic that someone paid for her surgery. MrBeast gave her an additional $10,000.
He continued and met with a young man named Satchel who has had poor vision from birth and nearly lost his entire vision from a go-karting accident. “All I see is blur and color,” Satchel told MrBeast. “I can barely see the shapes.” Unfortunately, Satchel’s blindness has prevented him from driving and robbed him of a pleasure he hopes to enjoy after the surgery.
Thankfully, Satchel’s surgery was a success, so MrBeast surprised him with a Tesla Model 3 at his three week checkup. The MrBeast team jumped in the Model 3 with him and drove through (and over) a test track with cones in a parking lot.
Watch MrBeast’s Emotional Video
MrBeast is known around the world as one of the greatest philanthropists of this generation. His videos frequently show him doing outlandish things, such as surviving in Antarctica for 50 hours, staying in solitary confinement for 50 hours, and more, in the name of raising awareness and helping others. The videos frequently surpass hundreds of millions of views, with viewers and participants winning new houses, cars, and money.
It’s not the first time the Greenville, North Carolina-based philanthropist has given away Teslas. Over the years, he has been an avid supporter of Tesla and critic of CEO Elon Musk. He frequently gives away Teslas, which have earned the title of being the safest vehicles on the road to fans, contestants, and people in need. In a video titled, “Win This Game & I’ll Give You a Tesla,” MrBeast and his friends played a video game called Rogue Company.
MrBeast Requests to be Twitter CEO
“I really want to be Elon one day,” he said in a tweet back in 2020. MrBeast has recently been critical of Musk’s Twitter takeover, requesting that Musk step down as Twitter’s CEO. In December 2022, Donaldson tweeted at Musk asking if he could be the CEO of Twitter, to which Musk replied, “it’s not out of the question.”
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Tesla has begun reaching out to customers to replace the high-voltage battery pack seals in Model S and Model X vehicles manufactured between 2021 and 2022. In particular, this impacts vehicles between January 2021 and September 22, 2022.
Tesla is notifying impacted owners through a notification and message in the Tesla app.
Plunger Replacement
The high-voltage battery port plungers intended for internal water leak egress (also known as flood ports) are being replaced with improved parts. The new parts are designed to be more robust against external water ingress due to submersion during flooding or other high-severity water impacts.
Tesla specifically notes that no action is needed from owners at this time - once the parts are available, owners will be notified with a notification from the app to encourage them to schedule a service appointment.
This voluntary recall is likely related to the incident where the fully submerged Model X caught on fire underwater, requiring first responders to wait for the battery to burn out before recovering the vehicle. That incident occurred back in October 2023.
While Submarine Mode is a fun Easter Egg, it doesn’t actually improve your vehicle’s water rating.
Service Details
Taking a look at the Service Bulletin (SB-25-16-002), Tesla will be replacing all five flood ports and, if necessary, the breather plugs and flood port doors. Tesla will require you to take your vehicle in for this appointment, which should take approximately 90 minutes for the Model S, and approximately 60 minutes for the Model X. Tesla’s Mobile Rangers won’t be able to complete this activity in your driveway.
The part being replaced is the plug.
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Because this is a voluntary recall, Tesla will be offering this as a goodwill service for any owners who have exceeded their Model S or Model X limited battery warranty - so don’t hesitate to take your vehicle in.
Following a period of radio silence from Tesla on FSD updates, Elon Musk has finally hinted that progress is continuing behind the scenes on FSD and that “Several major improvements are incoming.” We’re pretty excited - it has been over 100 days since the last FSD update, and we haven’t heard much since then.
The latest versions of FSD were V13.2.8 for AI4 vehicles and V12.6.2 for HW3 vehicles, both of which were released in January of this year — almost four months ago. While development has been ongoing internally, many have been wondering what the next public release will be. Will it be FSD V13.3, or will we jump straight to FSD V14.
Decoupled Releases & Spring Update
Tesla has now begun pushing Early Access users the 2025 Spring Update without an FSD version change. This means that we can expect the next FSD update to likely be based on the 2025.14 branch.
It’s worth noting that Tesla can add improvements to FSD at any time - and sometimes they do make minor changes without incrementing release numbers - small flag changes in FSD’s software to address how it does a specific task, or what data is uploaded.
With all that said, we expect the Spring Update to begin going out to more of the fleet in the coming days. We’re currently seeing about 58% of the fleet on the Spring Update, and only 30% of the fleet on the older 2025.8 January Update.
Not A Tesla App received information that an upcoming update was set to bring features from other AI4 vehicles to the Cybertruck, including Start FSD from Park, Unpark, Actually Smart Summon, and more. This update was intended to bring it closer to feature parity with the rest of Tesla’s AI4 fleet, but for now, Cybertruck remains the redheaded stepchild of the fleet.
We’re still confident that Tesla is working on this, and the continued delays on the release of an FSD update could point to the Cybertruck and a lack of data continuing to be a pain point for Tesla’s AI team. Cybertruck owners, including the author, have noted that FSD-equipped Cybertrucks continue to upload several hundred gigabytes or more of data per month. This topped out at nearly 1.9 TB of data uploaded in April 2025 for the author.
That’s a massive amount of data - and other users on social media have mentioned much the same for their own Cybertrucks. Tesla needs as much data as possible to tune the FSD models, and given the small fleet size for the Cybertruck, it requires a vast amount of data per user.
“Major Improvements”
While Elon didn’t mention what constitutes these major improvements, we have a lot of expectations besides what we know about the Cybertruck. Learning from the recent and successful FSD launch in China, Tesla is now able to utilize a more generalized model without specific local training data. This could potentially translate into better performance in North America as well, as the 7.7 million miles globally driven on FSD every day are feeding back into Tesla’s data loop.
We’re hopeful that future improvements continue to focus on improving tracking and decision-making, as well as lane handling. FSD users on X continue to point out issues with lane selection and lane keeping in the latest versions of FSD. On the flipside, Tesla has greatly increased the comfort and smoothness of FSD - and V13 is a prime example of that.
While V13.2.8 is also capable of pulling into parking stalls both forwards and in reverse (thanks to one of those flag changes recently), it does an oddly poor job of parking. Tesla’s Vision Autopark, on the other hand, is exceptionally accurate, even with big vehicles like the Cybertruck. It feels like Tesla is working on the parking lot stack to prepare for the upcoming launch of Robotaxi in June.
What About FSD V14
Back in the Q4 2024 Earnings Call, we heard about FSD V14, and just learned a little bit of what will make it unique. In this case, it's auto-regressive transformers that will improve FSD’s already powerful perception system and help it to predict better how other vehicles and road users will behave around it.
That, alongside a larger model and increased context size, will help FSD manage edge cases and make better decisions. The larger model and context size increases are likely another challenge for Tesla, which is already pushing the hardware limits of AI4 with FSD V13.
We did a deep dive into what we know about V14, which you can read here.
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