There's a beautiful story about how Saudi Arabia's building AI refineries now, building AI factories instead of oil refineries. I love that. I've said that AI is an infrastructure, and the reason for that, of course, we understand AI from the perspective of the technology and how it's revolutionizing every industry. Digital intelligence has applications into every field, and so it's going to be used by every company, every industry, every country. In that way, it's foundational and therefore it's part of infrastructure. What is new about AI from a computer science perspective is that the way computing was done in the past was largely retrieval-based computing. Somebody typed in a story or created a piece of art or came up with four versions of a digital ad, it's all pre-built by somebody, which is then using a system to retrieve the appropriate version for you. It's a retrieval-based computing model. Hadoop and many of the frameworks and operating systems of the past all designed to retrieve the appropriate information for you. But today, software is going to be generated in real time. It's generative based on the context, based on the circumstance, based on who you are, based on the problem you ask, based on your prompt. It will generate unique content for you every single time for everybody. It's unique. When you use Grok, every time you use it is different based on the prompt that you give it and based on the circumstance. So therefore, it used to be retrieval-based, today generative. And if it's generative and every time is different, then you need AI factories all over the world to generate the content in real time, which is the reason why you need AI factories. This is a unique way of doing computation, but the benefit of course is that everything isn't preconceived and pre-documented, and it's contextually sensible and therefore intelligent. So AI factories and robotics, and we heard it yesterday from His Royal Highness, his vision how to augment our workforce with roughly tens of millions of robotics to be able to infuse the next wave of productivity and progress. But this scares a lot of folks here when it comes to the future of jobs. So let's hear about your thoughts, Elon and Jensen, on that.
Sure. Well, in the long term, where will things end up? Long term, I don't know what long term is. Maybe it's 10, 20 years, something like that. For me, that's long term. My prediction is that work will be optional. Optional. So we'll take that. Yeah. I mean, it'll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that. If you want to work, you know, in the same way you can go to the store and just buy some vegetables, or you could grow vegetables in your backyard. It's much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables. That will be what work is like, optional. Now, between now and then, there's actually a lot of work to get to that point. And I always recommend people read Iain Banks' Culture books to get a sense for what a probable positive AI future is like. Interestingly, in those books, money no longer exists. It's kind of interesting. And my guess is that if you go out long enough, assuming there's a continued improvement in AI and robotics, which seems likely, money will stop being relevant at some point in the future. Now, there will still be constraints on power, like electricity and mass. The fundamental physics elements will still be constraints. But I think at some point, currency becomes irrelevant.
By the way, the Nvidia earnings call is later today. And by the way, since currency is relevant. Cheers.
Elon just wants to share with you some breaking news.
I would say there are different horizons you could look at. Everybody's jobs will be different. I think that's for sure. How students learn will be different. How people do their work will be different, obviously, because a lot of the things that we do mundanely or arduously or very difficultly are going to be done very simply. And so we're going to be more productive from that sense. One of the things that I will say is that for most people or a company, if your life becomes more productive and if the things that you're doing with great difficulty become simpler, it is very likely because you have so many ideas, you'll have more time to go pursue things. It is my guess that Elon will be busier as a result of AI. I'm going to be busier as a result of AI. And the reason for that is because we have so many ideas we want to pursue, so many things that we still have in our backlog inside our company that we can go pursue. If we were more productive, we can get to those things faster. And so in the near term, I would say that there's every evidence that we will be more productive and yet still be busier because we have so many ideas. One thing that I will say, give you some evidence, is that I was just telling Elon about this earlier. Radiology, for example, has largely been converted to AI-driven radiology, and there are some really great companies doing that. And the surprising thing is the prediction that all radiologists would be the first jobs to go was exactly the opposite. The trend shows that there are more radiologists being hired now as a result of AI. And the reason for that, if you take a step back, is because the goal of a radiologist is not to study the images. The goal of a radiologist is to diagnose a disease. Now, the studying of the images became so productive. They could study more images, study more modalities, spend more time with the patients. And as a result, they were actually accepting more patients. We're doing more radiology all around the world. We're doing a better job with diagnosing disease. And so that's kind of the near-term outcome of AI and productivity. And we'll see what happens long term. You know, when currency doesn't matter anymore, just let me know right before.
You'll see it coming. You'll see it coming. Like we text often, so just... Yeah, we do. Yeah, just text it off. Yeah, let me know.
I kind of agree with both of you because if you look at every technological trend, every general purpose technology has been net new positive for the globe, for humanity, and so forth. And let me share with you two, and Your Excellency, I think it's precisely the reason for that is because all the great ideas from innovators like Elon, that you have so many good ideas, and Jensen as well. Yeah. Well, thank you. So let me share with you two stories from two Saudi innovators in collaboration with a lot of the great work that Nvidia does, that Grok does. One is Professor Kamaragi. All right, let me say that again. Professor Omaragi, who is... I might need to move the mic. All right. Okay, come on. We'll share this one. Get closer. Let's try this one more time. So, one of them is Professor Omar Yagi, who's the first American Saudi to win a Nobel Prize in creating new chemistry. And the way he has done that, he has leveraged your AI accelerators and models like Grok to be able to create new chemistry when it comes to metal organic frameworks. Those are metal ions that are positively charged with organic linkers to be able to effectively create a sponge with 33 nanometer pores to capture water from air and also to capture carbon dioxide. The second story has also to do with AI accelerated by Nvidia and with models like Grok, which is effectively creating a nano robot 500 nanometers by 1000 nanometers to be able to do gene editing leveraging the CRISPR technology to take out sickle cell disease. Now, in both these instances, they originated 20 years ago in research, but AI was able to really accelerate the outcomes and the outputs such that we can move into new value pools. So I think with every technological trend, humanity is going to always manage to shift to new value pools when it comes to workforce and productivity. But we have some great announcements to talk about here today. Let's begin with you, Elon.
The things that we're doing with xAI. Yeah, we're excited to announce that we're doing a 500 megawatt... I mean, yeah, 500... sorry, 500 megawatt. Yeah, we're doing 500 megawatt. Sorry, yeah. 500 gigawatt will have to wait. So, that'll be eight bazillion trillion dollars. Stop that. So yeah, we're doing a xAI and the King of Saudi Arabia are doing a humane 500 megawatt, starting with 50 megawatt phase one, and we're doing it with Nvidia. Congratulations to the Humane team, to Target team. Such a fantastic job.
I think we're also doing some great announcements this week. We're announcing all kinds of things. Our partnership with Humane is going incredibly well. First of all, we work together to get this company started and off the ground, and just got an incredible customer with Elon. Could you imagine a startup company approximately zero billion dollars in revenues now going to build a data center for Elon? 500 megawatts is gigantic. This company is off the charts right away. In addition to that, we're working with AWS, as you know, is also congratulations to the Humane team with AWS starting with 100 megawatts with a gigawatt ambition and counting. So AWS is also coming to Humane. We're working with Humane on Omniverse digital twins. As you know, AI is not just agentic AI and chatbots and cognitive AI is incredibly important to the world. But AI applies to everything: chemicals and proteins and genes and physics and fluid dynamics and particles, and of course robotics and activation. And we created this world called Omniverse where robots can learn how to be good robots, and it's physically based. It obeys the laws of physics, so robots can learn in these environments. And we're working with Humane to apply Omniverse to all kinds of digital factories and robotics and warehouses and things like that. So that's another thing. We're also working in Saudi Arabia to build supercomputers to simulate quantum computers, using our computers to be the controller and the error correction. Quantum error correction requires an enormous amount of computation, so we're doing a lot of great work there too. So a big partnership with Humane, they're off the charts, off the ground and off the charts at the same time. This is how we walk the talk in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in partnership with the US. Yesterday, the president and His Royal Highness announced the AI strategic framework and partnership. Today, we're going big with Elon and Jensen. So, thank you for those opportunities.
Now, they told me I have time for two last questions. So, last night at the dinner, I got a number of questions because it seems that the schedule leaked, and everybody was giving me hints about the last two questions I'm going to do. So, the first one was for you, Elon, and there's a big one for you, Jensen. So, prepare for that one. AI in space, is that possible?
