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Elon Musk

Co-Founder, Technoking of Tesla, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Tesla, Inc.

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. Elon Musk has been active across SpaceX, Tesla, and government advisory roles. During SpaceX’s Q3 2026 earnings call, he reported that Starship Flight 14 reached orbit and deployed operational Starlink V3 satellites, and he stated that Flight 15 would attempt to recover both the booster and the ship, which he described as a potential first for fully reusable orbital launch vehicles. He also projected significant growth in SpaceX’s connectivity and compute businesses, citing rapid deployment of terrestrial compute infrastructure and forecasting annual recurring revenue between $500 billion and $1 trillion by the end of 2027. At a Tesla event in October, Musk unveiled a redesigned Roadster featuring SpaceX-developed thrusters, claiming it could accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in under one second and perform airborne maneuvers, with production targeted for 2028. Musk has also participated in several policy and industry discussions. In late September, he appeared at White House events where President Trump and tech executives announced the renaming of artificial intelligence to "super intelligence" (SI) and signed a voluntary accord on safety standards. Musk spoke in favor of the technology’s benefits, predicting an "age of abundance" with universal high income, while also advocating for peer review among AI companies to test each other’s models before release. He was named co-lead of the Pentagon’s "Project Meridian," a new initiative to study future warfare technologies, alongside Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. In interviews, he discussed the potential for AI and robots to solve national debt, the possibility of money becoming irrelevant in a future economy, and praised China’s leadership and development during a China Media Group interview.

Recent appearances

  • Elon Musk Reveals Tesla Optimus Production and 2027 Delivery Plans

    October 21, 2026 · 📺 DPCcars

    Tesla Optimus robot production has officially started! During Tesla's Q3 2026 financial results announcement, Elon Musk revealed major updates about the company's humanoid robot, including manufacturing plans, artificial intelligence development, and its targeted 2027 customer deliveries. Tesla has confirmed that initial production of Optimus humanoid robots is underway at its Fremont factory in California. The company is moving beyond experimental prototypes and beginning to manufacture production-quality robots, although further engineering and manufacturing improvements are still required.…

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  • 🇺🇸 Elon Musk Presents SpaceX Q3 2026 Financial and Operational Results | Earnings Call [LIVE]

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 MAGNO NEWS

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  • Elon Musk: SpaceX Will Attempt to Catch BOTH Starship & Booster on Flight 15!

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 VideoFromSpace

    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals ambitious plans for Starship Flight 15, including an attempt to catch BOTH the Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft for the first time! Musk says the next Starship launch could happen as soon as November 2026, potentially marking a historic milestone in fully reusable orbital launch technology. He also discusses plans to dramatically increase Starship's launch frequency, develop a massive new spaceport in Louisiana and expand the Starlink satellite constellation using Starship's enormous payload capacity. Plus, Musk shares his vision for the future of ar…

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  • Elon Musk: The UNTHINKABLE's About to Happen to SpaceX!

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 David Carbutt

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  • Elon Musk: The End of Work, the Death of Money, and a World Run by AI

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 The Builders

    Elon Musk has spent his career turning improbable ideas into companies that reshape the world. To some, the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX is an engineering genius whose ambitions have transformed electric cars and space travel. To others, his politics and extraordinary influence raise serious questions about the future he is building. Either way, the world’s first trillionaire is betting on AI, humanoid robots and life beyond Earth. In this season’s debut episode, Walter Isaacson asks Musk about DOGE regrets, why he believes robots will solve America’s national debt, and the dark polit…

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  • Watch: Elon Musk Shows Flying Electric Supercar With SpaceX Tech

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 NDTV Profit

    Elon Musk has unveiled Tesla's redesigned Roadster, showcasing an electric sports car capable of driving upside down and performing airborne manoeuvres using SpaceX-developed thrusters. At a demonstration in McGregor, Texas, on October 15, Tesla showed the two-seater using a suction system to drive upside down on a ramp before turning in the air and landing with built-in thrusters. Musk claims the Roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in under one second and reach speeds exceeding 230 mph. First unveiled in 2017, the long-delayed Roadster is now targeting production in 2028. However, que…

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  • Elon Musk Reveals Insane New Product!

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 Farzad and David Carbutt

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  • NEW Interview with Elon Musk - Starship, AI, Chips, Optimus, Cybercab (X-Takeover)

    October 10, 2026 · 📺 BestInTESLA

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  • Elon Musk returns to the Trump administration to co-lead the Pentagon's new warfare project

    September 30, 2026 · 📺 News24

    Elon Musk has rejoined the Trump administration to co-lead a project by the Pentagon to help shape the future of American warfare. On Wednesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Musk will co-lead ‘Project Meridian’ with Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. Musk, Palmer and Gingrich will work under War Department Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael. According to Fox News, the new project will help determine what weapons and technology troops will need to fight future wars.

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  • Elon Musk corrects himself, now calling artificial intelligence S.I. instead of A.I.

    September 30, 2026 · 📺 Mid-Michigan now on FOX66 & NBC25

    Elon Musk corrects himself, now calling artificial intelligence S.I. instead of A.I..

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  • 🇺🇸 JD Vance & Elon Musk Unveil Trump Admin. AI-Powered America.gov Platform [LIVE]

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 MAGNO NEWS

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  • 🇺🇸 President Trump Meets Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Zuckerberg on Super Intelligence

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 MAGNO NEWS

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“What we've done at SpaceX is we've taken a team that has been able to achieve a market share in mass to orbit that is almost 90% of all mass to orbit of Earth, where China is about roughly 6% and the rest of the world combined, including the rest of the US, is about 4%. So a team that has been able to achieve results that are an order of magnitude greater than all competitors in space combined. And we've applied that”

“anyone will be able to have any goods and services that they want. And I don't think even so-called wealthy people will ultimately control the AIs. I think they'll control themselves. So, so it's not like you have to separate like like I think the sort of a fundamental misunderstanding of economics arises because of conflating resource allocation and consumption. So there there's there's a limit to what any single hu”

“I came to the conclusion that the only way we're going to solve the national debt is with AI and robots. We're not going to solve it by trying to save our way there. The appetite is not there. And it's not just at the presidency. The appetite is not there at the presidency, the House, the Senate, or the judiciary. Basically, no one in authority in the government whatsoever really, with maybe a few rare exceptions of ”

“The economic impact has been tremendous. There's actually a job shortage in the region, whereas there used to be quite a bit of unemployment, and now there's an overemployment, if you will. There's more jobs than there are people, and the tax benefits for the community have been tremendous. I think we might have doubled their tax budget or something, quite tremendous. And we do like small things that are helpful, lik”

“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, I think essentially China is the biggest competitor, and China has about three times t”

“Jobs are going to change. Jobs have always changed. But it being a computer used to be a job. They used to be buildings full of people doing calculations. But now 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, it's not as t”

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