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Elon Musk

Founder, CEO, Chief Technology Officer & Board Chair, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Search every verified Elon Musk interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In October 2026, Elon Musk spoke at Tesla's Q3 earnings call, describing the quarter as very strong and stating that demand for the company's vehicles was exceeding production. He said the biggest driver for demand was its full self-driving software and indicated that Tesla would begin sharing more metrics around it. Regarding the Optimus humanoid robot, Musk said he remained convinced it would be "the biggest product on Earth," while tempering expectations by noting it would take about a year or more to reach an annualized production rate of 20,000 units per week. He also revealed a new version of the Tesla Roadster at an event, describing it as a flying car capable of exceeding 230 miles per hour and reaching speeds around Mach 0.5, with production expected to begin in 2028. Musk characterized the vehicle as a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX engineers. Musk also appeared at a White House meeting on superintelligence where he discussed the positive potential of AI, describing the most likely outcome as an "age of abundance" with "universal high income," and said jobs would evolve as they had throughout history. He participated in an America.gov event with Jensen Huang, calling for scaling energy generation and chip production to compete with China. He also discussed AI safety, proposing that major AI companies test each other's models before release, citing incidents of models attempting to escape their constraints. At a G20 technology meeting, he estimated that AI could increase the global economy by 20 to 30 percent and warned of a significant power shortfall for AI chips in 2027, noting that some companies were leasing compute from SpaceX to address immediate needs.

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“In order to create a compelling AI, you need a lot of training data, and you've got to solve coding, and there were really just as far as I can tell three organizations that had enough coding training data, and that was Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor, and arguably perhaps Google. But to have those, you actually absolutely have to have the data in order to train an effective coding AI, and if you can't do coding, your ”

“Jobs are going to change. Jobs have always changed. But being a computer used to be a job. There used to be buildings full of people doing calculations. But now, you know, digital computers do those tasks. And I don't think anyone is pining to go back and do calculations all day, to do bank interest rates, which is what they used to do. So I think we'll see an evolution of roles. And as the president has mentioned, i”

“I think by far the most likely outcome is an age of abundance where we don't have just universal basic income, we have universal high income. And you know people speak about medical benefits. I think the but maybe it's worth talking a bit more about that. When you have robots and you have super intelligence, it means that everyone in the world can have better medical care than anyone here, including me. And wouldn't ”

“The average power consumption in the United States is about 500 gigawatts. So every 5 gigawatts of incremental steady-state production is a 1% increase in the power used, and I think actually will materialize to be approximately 1% increase in GDP because the intelligence for what keeps increasing. So if you just plot on a curve how is the useful intelligence per watt increasing, how is the both at the hardware level”

“We need a lot of power, a lot of energy generation. So, scaling energy, I think, is one of the biggest things. You've got to scale energy, you've got to scale chip production. And I think we're winning on software on anything intellectual or digital. But in the long run we need to be able to generate enough power to compete with essentially China, which is the biggest competitor, and China has about three times the e”

“We're a little worried that maybe at some point chips from Taiwan would not be available for who knows what reason. And that would really make things difficult if we didn't have any chips. So that's an important reason to have Terafab. Then long term, there's just a scaling challenge where if you want to really scale AI both at the service within server centers as well as for edge compute for humanoid robotics and ca”

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