About Elon Musk
Elon Musk recently oversaw SpaceX’s public listing on the Nasdaq on June 12, 2026, which he said was the largest initial public offering in the history of capital markets. During the event, Musk stated that he had originally given SpaceX “less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all” and recalled telling people, “Look, we’re probably going to fail, but you know, we should give it a try because if we don’t… we will never be a truly spacefaring civilization.” He described SpaceX’s mission as “to take the fiction out of science fiction” and said the company aims to make humanity multi-planetary, adding, “We want to be able to take anyone who wants to go to the moon, anyone who wants to go to Mars… not just a few astronauts.” The IPO was widely reported to have made Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
In addition to the IPO, Musk discussed SpaceX’s plans to build AI satellites and space-based data centers. In an interview with SpaceX employees in Bastrop, Texas, he said that the company’s AI satellite is “actually much simpler than a Starlink satellite” and noted that the current reference design calls for Nvidia Rubin chips. He also spoke about a “terrafab” facility that he said would be approximately 100 million square feet, roughly 10 times the size of Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas, and discussed using a mass driver on the moon to launch materials into deep space. Separately, Musk oversaw the final delivery of Tesla’s Model S and Model X vehicles, which he called a “bittersweet moment,” emphasizing that those cars “showed that an electric car could actually be the best car of any period.”
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We do expect actually to start fully autonomous, unsupervised FSD in Texas and California next year. And that's obviously with the Model 3 and Model Y. And then we expect to be in production with the Cybercab, which is really highly optimized for autonomous transport, in probably—well, I tend to be a little optimistic with time frames—but in 2026, so yeah, before 2027, let me put it that way. And we'll make this vehicle in very high volume. But well before that, you will experience a robotic taxi via the Model 3 and Model Y program and Model S and X. But the Model 3 and Y will achieve unsupervised full self-driving with permission in wherever regulators essentially approve it in the US, and then to follow outside the US. So, and Cybertruck too, yes, of course. Sorry, I don't want to be—yes, yes, all our cars are basically—all cars that we make. So let's not get nuanced here. All right, next slide.
So one of the reasons why the computer can be so much better than a person is that we have millions of cars that are training on driving. So it's like living millions of lives simultaneously and seeing very unusual situations that a person in their entire lifetime would not see. So with that amount of training data, it's obviously going to be much better than what a human could be, because you can't live a million lives. And it can see in all directions simultaneously, and it doesn't get tired or text or any of those things. So it will naturally be, like I said, 10, 20, 30 times safer than a human just for all those reasons. And I want to emphasize that the solution that we have is AI and vision, so there's no expense of equipment needed. So the Model 3 and Model Y and S and X that we make today will be capable of full autonomy, unsupervised.
