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I Watched Elon Musk's LIVE All-Hands Meeting and Here's What I Found
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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.”
Transcript (59 segments)
✨ AI-enhanced transcript with speaker attribution
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Elon Musk0:00
The incredible people here at Tesla are deeply committed to this cause. That's what sets us apart. We can do what no other company can. We build lower-cost products that remain highly efficient and compelling, and we make them at scale. All of it happens in compact, high-output factories designed to be built quickly and run efficiently. We work as one team, constantly asking the tough questions and pushing boundaries. This isn't just a product. It's the key to ending the fossil fuel era. We're not just building cars, trucks, or batteries. We're driving a global movement toward clean, sustainable energy for everyone. What we're sharing is a message of hope and material, science-based optimism. A sustainable energy future isn't just possible. It's inevitable, and it's going to happen in your lifetime. The key to unlocking scalable full self-driving is getting the architecture, the data, and the compute exactly right. We've built a world-class team to make it happen. Every truck we put on the road that replaces a diesel one moves us closer to our mission of sustainable energy and transportation. You can see it. You can feel it. The collaboration, the pride, the belief that what we're doing matters.
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Moderator1:47
All right.
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Elon Musk1:52
Well, let me start off first by thanking everyone at Tesla for your incredible hard work. The Tesla team is an incredible team. Great human beings. Some of the finest people in the world work at Tesla, designing and manufacturing our incredible products. So, my thanks to you for everything you're doing. Well done. So, we're going to go through a list of the incredible achievements of the Tesla team. We've now produced over 7 million vehicles. In our first year of production, we produced just over 20 vehicles. And I thought, maybe we might one day be able to do 10 or 20 a week instead of 10 or 20 a year. And the way things are tracking right now, we will actually have made over 10 million vehicles next year. That's a lot of cars, man. That's a lot of cars.
It's incredibly difficult to design, to build, to manage the supply chain with thousands of suppliers, make sure everything arrives, you've got tens of thousands of parts, make sure everything works, then build the car, service the car. The car business is a tough business. And there are times when there are rocky moments, like a little bit of stormy weather. But what I'm here to tell you is that the future is incredibly bright and exciting, and we're going to do things that no one I think has even dreamed of. We've said we're going to do it, but I think until we actually do it, people won't believe just how incredible it is. So I'm going to go through all of the things that we're accomplishing here. So once again, thank you very much.
It's worth noting that Tesla remains the company of choice for people to work for. We get millions of applications per year for a very small number of spots. And we continue to be the leading organization, along with SpaceX, for engineering talent in the world. And also for manufacturing talent. It's an awesome place to work, basically. Because of our growth, there's a lot of opportunity for upward mobility. And I'm going to talk you through how I see the future unfolding and why I think it is going to be incredible. First of all, as always, we care a lot about safety. The safety of our cars and the safety of people within the factory. Our work-related injuries have declined over time. So thank you for helping make that happen. That's a collaborative effort. Congratulations to the safety team on continuing to improve workplace safety.
One of the things that may seem like, how do you pull it all together, is where does AI and robots fit in this sustainable energy picture? Is that just some weird side project? But what we're really aiming for here is, maybe a better way to think of it rather than sustainable energy, is sustainable abundance for all. So if you think about what's the most exciting future that you could possibly imagine, what does that future look like? It's worth thinking about. Just imagine a future. What does that amazing future look like? How about a future where you can have any good or service you want at will? A future of abundance for all, where really anyone can have anything. It sounds impossible. It sounds like surely such a thing cannot be the case. But I'm here to tell you that that will indeed be the case. That the future we're headed for is one where you can literally just have anything you want. If there's a good or service you want, you'll be able to have it, and ultimately everyone in the world will be able to have anything they want.
What's key to that is robotics and AI. So once you have self-driving cars and you have autonomous humanoid robots where everyone can have their own personal C3PO and R2-D2, but even better than that, that's Optimus. You can imagine your own personal robot buddy that is a great friend but also takes care of your house. We'll clean your house. We'll mow the lawn. We'll walk the dog. We'll teach your kids. We'll babysit. And we'll also enable the production of goods and services basically with no limit. And when you combine that with sustainable energy from the sun and batteries, we can at the same time also maintain a great environment. So that I think is the future that we want. A future where nobody's in need. You can have what you want, and we still have nature. We still have the beautiful parts of nature that we like. I think that's probably the best future. I can't — what other future would you want? I think that's the cool future. And also space travel. Let's not forget that. If you can have basically anything you want and travel to space and go to Mars, that's about as good as it gets. So that's really what we're trying to do — take the set of actions most likely to lead to a great future for all. That's what I mean by sustainable abundance.
The combination of things that we're making with Optimus and AI compute will achieve an age of abundance for all. It's going to be pretty great. And Model Y became the bestselling vehicle in the world. FYI, we do make the best — we actually literally make the bestselling car on Earth of any kind. For two years in a row. And it's going to be the bestselling car on Earth again this year. The Cybertruck became the bestselling electric vehicle pickup instantly because it's awesome. And Tesla was the bestselling electric vehicle in Europe. The fastest growing brand in South Korea, and we launched in a lot of new markets including Qatar, Lithuania, Chile, and the Philippines. Teslas will be available worldwide.
Overall, it's good. If you read the news, it feels like Armageddon. I can't walk past the TV without seeing a Tesla on fire. What's going on? Some people — listen, I understand if you don't want to buy our product, but you don't have to burn it down. That's a bit unreasonable. This is psycho. Stop being psycho. So, and we launched the new Model Y. Congrats to the team on that.
That's obviously very tough because we've got factories all across the world and we've got to change over a global supply chain on basically three supply chains on three continents. And I think you did an amazing job of switching over the world's bestselling car globally in a very short period of time. Well done, guys. And let's not forget also we upgraded the Model 3 last year. I would encourage people to also buy the Model 3. It's a great car actually. The Cybertruck has achieved five-star safety. These days, sometimes things get a little dangerous in the neighborhood and the Cybertruck, being bulletproof and all, can come in handy. But apart from being bulletproof, it's also very safe in a crash.
We're also building the Tesla Semi. This is a vehicle that some people said was impossible to build. That it defied physics. Well, not only does it not defy physics, we're going to be making a lot of them. I think ultimately we'll make over a million, millions probably, of the Tesla Semi. This is really going to be something you'll see all over the place, and it'll also be autonomous or have the ability to go autonomous down the road. Autonomy is a massive, massive thing. The future is autonomous.
I always sort of think like what will the future look like in five years or 10 years, 20 years. Five years from now, autonomous cars are going to be everywhere. Primarily going to be Teslas by the way, but autonomous Teslas will be everywhere. And I think in five years probably we'll have regulatory approval globally. So you'll have autonomous Teslas on every continent taking people on trips. And almost the entire fleet, which will pass 10 million vehicles next year, is capable of full autonomy. So even without the Cybercab, we still actually have a gigantic fleet that is capable of being autonomous. And the thing about being an autonomous car is that it can be used much more than a car that is not autonomous. A typical passenger vehicle will be used about 10 hours a week. But there are 168 hours in a week. So if you have a robot car that can drive autonomously, it can now be used potentially for 80, maybe 100 hours a week. So you could have a car that has 10 times the usefulness of a non-autonomous car, but it still costs the same.
In fact, the fleets are already built. So the software update just enables that capability overnight. You have an increase in usefulness of 10 million cars that suddenly become like 50 million cars or maybe 80 or 100 million cars of usefulness overnight. That's a profound thing. Nothing like that has ever happened before. There's no analogy. Nothing — there's never been something where a software update increased the value of a gigantic asset base by a factor of like 500 to 1,000%. So it's very difficult for people in the stock market, especially those that look in the rearview mirror, which is most people, to imagine a future where suddenly a 10 million vehicle fleet has five to 10 times the usefulness. It's so profound and there's no comparison with anything in the past that they just can't — it does not compute. But it will compute in the future. And some people like Cathie Wood at Ark Invest do see the future. So what I'm saying is hang on to your stock.
I want to give a shout-out to service. Service is a tough job, an important job. And it's actually what sells cars long term. The initial car is sold with sales, but all future cars are sold with service. I always encourage our service team — let's try to give people a service experience that they love. Not really that they like, but that they love. Because people will talk about something that they love that was an amazing experience, but they don't talk that much about things that they like. You have to really do something amazing. And then they'll talk about it and be like, 'Wow, that's incredible.' So thank you to the service team for the great job you do.
You can see sort of the light map of superchargers. You can go practically anywhere in the US, Mexico, Europe, China — most of the places where people live. Our supercharge network continues to grow significantly. And we keep upgrading our superchargers. I still run into a lot of people who don't realize that you can drive your Tesla on a road trip anywhere in America or Europe or China just using the Tesla supercharger network, and it's actually easy and convenient. People think that whatever the range of the car is, that's as far as they can go. It's like no, you can just stop at a supercharge station. The car's battery will last longer than your bladder. I'm pretty confident. So that's really the threshold. As long as the car battery lasts longer than your bladder and you just plug it in when you go to the restroom and you come back and grab a coffee and you're back on the road, then that's the range that matters and the supercharging speed that matters. Congrats to the supercharger team on expanding the network and doing great work there.
The Megapack and Powerwall team are really knocking it out of the park. The demand for stationary battery storage is gigantic. And I think that is actually only going to increase dramatically over time. We've got the Shanghai Megafactory that got started in record time in February. Congrats to the Shanghai factory team. The Powerwall 3 — it usually takes about three major technology iterations for the product to be great. And the Powerwall 3 really is a fantastic home energy product. If you want to ensure that your home has uninterrupted power during a power outage, the Powerwall 3 is the way to go. And if you combine that with solar, you can basically be off-grid, which is pretty cool. But I think just having energy assurance such that if the utility goes down, you don't even notice — the lights are on in your house, and your neighbors will come to you for help. That's actually what happens when somebody has a Tesla Powerwall and there's a power outage. So that's a great product.
Then Megapack, especially at the utility scale — the opportunity there is gigantic because it enables a utility grid to dramatically increase the output of electricity. Because you can generate electricity at night and then the Megapack can provide that electricity during the day, because normal electricity demand is very uneven. There's a lot of electricity usage during the day but limited at night. So Megapack actually has the potential to increase the output of an existing electricity grid by more than double. Without building additional power plants, you can double the total output of energy in a year. So it's quite a profound thing. Megapack is also really good at stabilizing the grid. If there are variations in power in the grid, the Megapack can absorb a big power spike and store the power, and then if there's a drop in power, it can fill in the gap. Megapack is excellent for stabilizing the grid. And obviously it matches very well with wind and solar. In fact, satellites are just solar panels and a battery. That's how all satellites work. With the Starlink satellite network, there's 7,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery. My prediction is long-term, a majority of power on Earth, eventually it might be like 90% or more of all power on Earth will be solar panels with batteries. That's my prediction. My predictions have a pretty good track record.
The Powerwalls can also act as a virtual grid. If you have thousands of Powerwalls in a neighborhood, they can actually work in concert to stabilize the grid. The V4 Supercharger is pretty cool. It enables charging at 500 kilowatts, and the Semi can charge at 1.2 megawatts. It's smaller and lighter. It's a big improvement overall. And we're rolling this out worldwide. It will increase charging speeds and just enable you to get your car charged really fast.
With regard to cell manufacturing, we think we're making the most efficient cell in the world, meaning the lowest cost per kilowatt-hour cell. There are entire companies that all they do is make lithium-ion battery cells. And for us, that's one of many things that we do. So congratulations to the cell team on making the best cell.
That's a really big deal. And then we're also investing in the whole battery supply chain. We have cathode production, we have lithium refining, and more. Hopefully we're hoping someone else will do the anode. We might have to do the anode. I hope someone else does it. Why do we have to do all these things? A lot of people think we do these things because we want to, but really it's often just because we didn't have any choice. Nobody else was doing it, so we had to do it.
A lot of manufacturing milestones. In Berlin we produced 660,000 drive units. Fremont, we built our first Optimus at the Optimus production line in Fremont. We're preparing for Cybercab production here at Gigafactory Austin. And Gigafactory Shanghai created its 3 millionth car. We've produced 160,000 NACS adapters at Gigafactory New York and we've got record battery pack production at Gigafactory Nevada. So congrats to everyone.
We also just — behind us on the south side of the building, we have what we call Cortex One. It's like basically a giant brain, a computer brain that is used for AI training. We take the vast amount of video that we get from all the cars in the fleet and we use that to train the artificial intelligence to be able to drive the car. This is one of the most powerful training systems in the world, with over 50,000 GPUs active and soon to be 100,000 GPUs, which will make it probably top five in the world in training centers.
We're also making continuing progress on our Dojo training supercomputer. We've got Dojo One active now in Gigafactory New York and in Palo Alto. And it is actively working. It's taking load — it's doing a meaningful percentage, well I guess 5% or whatever, but it's still something — maybe approaching 10% of the training load of the self-driving AI is being done by Dojo. And then we've got Dojo 2 coming down the line that'll be probably 10 times better than Dojo One. It's exciting. We're making good progress with Dojo. I'm increasingly optimistic about the future of Dojo. We've got a real shot here at a breakthrough. So congrats to the Dojo team.
All Tesla vehicles have now had what we call Autopilot Hardware 4, or really our AI4 hardware. It's a very powerful AI inference computer that also operates at very low power. Even to this day, even though this is something we designed several years ago, there actually isn't anything on the market that we can buy that is better than AI4. And obviously in future years we'll have AI5 and AI6. Sometimes people say, should I wait? I'm like, we're always going to have another version, so there's no point in waiting. But we obviously will have an AI5 and an AI6 and an AI7 and we'll keep improving the AI compute. So for those out there that are interested in developing advanced chips, come work at Tesla.
It is always profound to watch our cars driving with no one in them. And we actually have the cars doing useful work for the first time with no one in them, which I think is really a significant milestone. The cars are driving from end of line in Fremont to park themselves. And I think we've just started doing that here in Austin. The car literally goes from end of line in Fremont to its destination parking spot where it gets picked up by a truck for delivery to a customer, with no one in it. And it's just a matter-of-fact thing.
For anyone that's using it, you can see the dramatic improvements in full self-driving where it's getting to the point where interventions are extremely rare and eventually it'll get to the point where there really is no need to intervene — the car is going to be better than human. It's worth emphasizing that Tesla full self-driving will not just be equal to humans in safety. It will be ultimately 10 times safer than a human because it never gets tired. It doesn't get wasted. Humans get tired and sometimes get wasted. We have arguments or change the radio or text. I know no one in this audience would ever text while driving, that would be crazy. But it does happen. The reality is Tesla full self-driving will be vastly safer than humans. Not just equivalent, it will be actually vastly safer. And it means you can do whatever you want while driving. Even if you don't rent your car out for usage, it frees up your time. If you're driving 10 to 12 hours a week or more, it gives you back 10 to 12 hours of your life, which is extremely cool.
Optimus sure has come a long way. The new Optimus 22-degree-of-freedom hand and forearm is now in production. And it's learning to walk and catch balls. It's pretty cool. Look, that's where we came from. It's wild. In a very short period of time, Optimus has gone from being an idea to the most sophisticated humanoid robot on Earth. There's nothing even close to the level of sophistication of Optimus. And Tesla has some important missing ingredients that others don't have, which is our robot has a real brain. It's like Wizard of Oz, Tin Man — was that a heart or a brain? One of the two. It's got the real-world AI. Tesla's the leader in real-world AI. What we learned in the car, we translate to the Optimus robot. And we also take our expertise in electric motors, batteries, power electronics, structural design. And then another major important thing is that we're very good at manufacturing.
In order for robots to be useful, they have to be intelligent, they have to be able to do useful things just by asking, and you have to be able to make a large number of them at an affordable price. This is what we can do. We're the only company with all the ingredients for making intelligent humanoid robots at scale. This is a super big deal. My prediction is that Optimus will be the biggest product of all time by far. Nothing will even be close. It'll be 10 times bigger than the next biggest product ever made.
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Moderator32:07
All right. So with that, anybody have any questions?
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Elon Musk32:35
We do want to scale up production to new heights. Obviously with the Cybercab, the Cybercab is not just revolutionary car design, it's also a revolutionary manufacturing process. We probably don't talk about that enough. If you've seen the design of the Cybercab line, it doesn't look like a normal car manufacturing line. It looks like a really high-speed consumer electronics line. In fact, the line will move so fast that people can't even get close to it. I think it'll be able to produce a car ultimately in less than 5 seconds. Can you imagine a car coming off the line in less than 5 seconds? Which means casting's got to happen fast. We've got to jam the liquid metal in, cool it down real fast. And then I guess maybe we need to get even bigger casting machines.
Let's have some fun here. Push the limits of technology.
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Unknown34:53
Hi Elon. I've been with Tesla for the last eight years. It has been the most exhilarating eight years of my career, and I truly want to thank you for your leadership. I also have two little girls who spend their weekends cruising around in their very awesome Cybertruck. I'd love to know when we can add Optimus to the family.
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Elon Musk35:19
Good question. This year we hopefully will be able to make about 5,000 Optimus robots. We're technically aiming for enough parts to make 10,000, maybe 12,000. But since it's a totally new product with totally new everything, I'll say we're succeeding if we get to half of the 10,000. But even 5,000 robots — FYI, a whole legion of robots, like whoa. I think we'll literally build a legion, at least one legion of robots this year. Then probably 10 legions next year — it's kind of a cool unit, units of legion. Probably 50,000ish next year. And then Optimus will be ready for use outside of Tesla-controlled environment maybe around the second half of next year. We will offer Optimus robots first to Tesla employees, so you guys get the priority. There are some pluses and minuses to that — it'll probably have a few bugs. But it's going to be very cool. You'll definitely want to invite your friends over and say, 'Check this out.'
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Unknown37:14
Hi Elon. My name's Dom. I've been here for a little over a year now. I work in people development. We make so many amazing things, but right now it's still the people that do it. When we think about applying first principles to the relationships and the teams that people have, how would you encourage us to think about that and act on those first principles when it comes to relationships and teams?
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Elon Musk37:53
There are actually quite a few things I've written over the years that it would be good to compile into a booklet or something, because I actually need to be reminded of those things myself. There's like the five-step process: make the requirements less dumb, then try to delete the part or process step, only then optimize, only then speed it up, and only the fifth thing is automate. I have to repeat that to myself many times because I've made that mistake of doing it backwards so many times. Always operating on the principle that everyone is wrong to some degree and we should aspire to be less wrong over time, which we will not always succeed in doing. But if two days out of three you're less wrong, over time your batting average is going to be really good. Nobody ever bats a thousand, but you can improve your batting average. You want to critique yourself. You want to internalize responsibility. These are all things I need to remind myself of. Remember what is our goal as a company. Our goal is to make amazing products that people love. And then to take care of those products with service. What are we doing to make our products better, to make them more affordable, to have the customer experience be delightful?
That's actually the purpose of a company. Sometimes people get — why does a company exist? A company exists. It's a group of people collected together to produce a compelling product or service that others find useful, and where the value of the product and service is greater than the cost of what it took to make that product or service. Sometimes weirdly profit is viewed negatively, but really profit is just the difference in value between the output and the input. What did it cost you to make it, and what are people prepared to pay for it? That's the value that you created. It's tough actually to maintain even a 10% profitability — to make the output 10% more valuable than the input. It's actually quite hard, especially in the car industry which is very competitive. We should not lose sight of why are we here. We're here to make useful products that people love, and take care of them over time. So then how are we doing in that respect and how can we do that better?
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Unknown41:11
What advice would you give a young person getting into the stock market?
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Elon Musk41:16
Stock advice. These questions are not prepared in advance. This is literally random questions from the crowd, which is cool. I'm fine with that. It's going to sound very straightforward, but you want to really buy stock in companies where you think the products that company makes will be better in the future. Are they going to make more and better products? Do you love the products that company makes, and are they going to keep doing that? Tesla, as I've just gone through, has a track record of having made many great products, and we're going to make many more future great products. We're going to scale up production, and I think we've demonstrated a level of innovation that is extremely rare. Certainly by far the most innovative company in the car industry, not even close. I do think Tesla stock, long-term with Optimus and self-driving, Tesla will probably be the most valuable company in the world. But there are also other companies out there that make great products and services. So I think that's the way you want to look at it. Say, do you think this product — because that's the reason why companies exist, is to make great products and services. If you think that a company is going to improve over time, then buy the stock. And if you don't, then don't.
The stock market is a very strange thing. I think it's Warren Buffett's metaphor — the stock market's like having someone stand at the edge of your house and yell prices about to buy or sell your house every day. And sometimes they take their meds and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the person yelling out the price of your house is having a good day and sometimes they're having a bad day. But it's still the same house. Tesla stock goes up and it goes down. But actually it's still the same company. It's just people's perception of the future. I guess it's just very emotional. But for me, while it's difficult to predict how things will be in the next 6 to 12 months, if you say where will things be in three years or five years, the future of Tesla is incredibly bright.
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Unknown44:42
Will the robot take your job?
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Elon Musk44:46
That's a fair question. Is a robot going to come steal your job? I think what we'll find with the robots is that there'll be a ratio of people to robots. So you'll effectively end up managing a group of robots. You'll have your flock or your little group of robots that you take care of and you tell them what to do. You'll have a little pack of robots. You're promoted to manager, one way to think of it. I think the same thing will be true of cars — for the self-driving cars, people that are say Uber drivers today or taxi drivers today will end up managing a fleet of cars, and that'll be a much more effective use of their time. Just taking care of like 10, 20 cars or however many they can take care of.
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Adrian45:59
Hello, my name is Adrian. You said that your companies are made to make products people love. Have you ever thought of airplanes or trains?
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Elon Musk46:11
Yeah, I'd actually love to make airplanes especially. But I'm stretched pretty thin. I have like 17 jobs. At this point, I just go to sleep, work, go to sleep, work, and do that seven days a week pretty much. People say, 'Where do you go on vacation?' I'm like, 'What's that?' But I guess I like being productive. I like getting things done. I guess I could choose to be on an island somewhere sipping a Mai Tai with attractive people in bikinis and stuff. Why am I not doing that? What a fool I've been.
I've actually thought about aircraft designs for a long time. I think there's an interesting opportunity to make an electric supersonic VTOL jet. The VTOL is like cherry on the cake, but certainly an electric long-range fast electric airplane would be very cool. Maybe at some point we'll do that. Yeah, that'll be kind of fun. We do have the ingredients for it.
And then there is the potential for — again, we're thinking pretty far into the future here — not a conventional train, but that sort of hyperloop essentially. Vacuum tunnels where you draw a vacuum so there's no air resistance, and you have very high-speed autonomous electric pods in a vacuum tube, vacuum tunnel. That would allow you to go from city center to city center much faster than any airplane could possibly go. Going into an underground vacuum tunnel would be like teleporting to super high altitude effectively, which no plane could do, and then it could deliver you right to the center of a city. That might be some future collaboration with Boring Company and Tesla. I've got a million ideas. I have more ideas than I know what to do with. Ideas are kind of the easy part. Execution is the hard part. As they say, it's 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
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Aaron Armstrong48:58
Yes, sir. My name is Aaron Armstrong. It's not every day that you get to be in the presence of somebody that's accumulated so much wealth and success. I just wanted to take this opportunity to ask for any wisdoms or secrets that you may have to offer about this game of life that we're all trying to play.
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Elon Musk49:20
Sure. I try to say everything that I know. Admittedly sometimes I'm — I posted on X, I guess I should ask the AI to look through all of my X posts and pick out the ones that are really good. Because I try to say any good ideas that I have, I try to post them. I think generally it's good to always be curious and to read widely. Read a lot of interesting books, especially history. I find history really interesting. And I find biographies and autobiographies to be also very interesting. It's good to read especially autobiographies where somebody's done something incredible and they wrote the book themselves or mostly themselves. That'll give you a lot of ideas.
Something that I do is I'll get audiobooks. Because I got so much going on in my mind, when I — it's kind of hard to go to sleep because it's like having a computer browser with a hundred tabs open. That's — by the end of the day I got like 100 tabs open — how do I close this browser? That's my brain. So then I'll listen to an audiobook and I'll put on a timer and it's like 15 minutes. It's like being read a bedtime story by your phone. Podcasts and audiobooks, especially at bedtime, I find are great.
There's a city in South Texas which is Starbase. It's a city for — in fact, 'cities' may make it sound bigger than it is — but it's a really small town plus a giant rocket factory. That's Starbase. It's in South Texas, Starbase, Texas, right by the Rio Grande. And you can just literally drive there because it's on a state highway, so you can just drive through it, check it out. I do own a piece of property that's just across the river. It used to be like a horse place where they would give horse riding lessons and stuff. And at some point I think it would be cool to do this gigantic art project there that looks like an alien planet right across the river. But like that people could visit. So then I might live there occasionally, but really it's a place to envision an alien planet art project across the river. Be kind of cool.
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Unknown53:19
Do you foresee Tesla making a product that helps how we spend money?
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Elon Musk53:26
Well, I think AI is going to help us spend money better. It's kind of amazing what AI can do these days. I don't know if anyone here has used Grok, but it's pretty cool. Grok voice can be really pretty great too. Try Grok Unhinged — it's guaranteed to be entertaining at a party. I 1,000% promise you if you try Grok voice unhinged at a party, it's going to be a big hit. But you can also ask it any questions. If you want to ask questions about life advice or anything — you can ask it about cryptocurrency if you want, you can ask it about medical advice. It's very good and it's getting better. I think try using Grok. It's really pretty cool.
We're in phase three of the master plan since master plan one and two have been completed. Master plan part three is a very long master plan because it's basically making all energy on Earth sustainable. And I actually need to supplement it with the sort of abundance for all. Maybe that's master plan four. I've kind of described master plan four essentially, which is autonomous cars, autonomous humanoid robots. You combine that with solar and battery storage and I think the future's going to be incredible. So I'll take a couple more questions and call it a night.
There are actually some Optimus robots being built in Fremont right now. So we'll — not sure what that was, but we expect to have an Optimus production line here as well. So there'll be Optimus production starting in the Bay Area, and then we'll have the even bigger Optimus production line here in Austin. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of robots. Ultimately, I think we'll be making tens of millions of robots a year. Maybe 100 million robots a year. It's wild.
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Unknown56:48
It's about sustainability, abundance.
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Elon Musk56:59
Well, yes. Obviously utopia could be dystopia. We want to avoid that. Usually any story about utopia ends up being dystopia. But nonetheless, I think if you say what's the best future you can think of, I think a future of sustainable abundance plus space travel. That's pretty great.
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Unknown57:30
Oh, we need adversity.
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Elon Musk57:42
Well, you make a good point. If things actually get too easy, maybe we get bored and you kind of want to overcome adversity to some degree. If you play a game of some kind, you want the game to be not too easy and not too hard. And maybe the future will be too easy potentially is what you're saying. That's a high-class problem. But I think we'll still have human-to-human competitions. If you look at athletics or even mind games like chess — although computers can beat any human at chess, chess is actually at an all-time high in popularity. And although cars can go faster than any humans, we still have athletic sports where humans compete against each other. So I think we'll still have human versus human competitiveness.
I think long-term we will also have enhancement of humans, or optionally if somebody wants to enhance — have cybernetic enhancements like with Neuralink. If you want to go cybernetic and I don't know, maybe have super intelligence and be able to see in different wavelengths. We could absolutely provide superhuman abilities via Neuralink in the future.
Generally I find that the most interesting outcome is the most likely. Or said another way, maybe the most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is the most likely. It's almost like we're in an alien Netflix series that's trying to have the highest possible ratings. If you think about it, that's kind of what happens. Which doesn't mean it's always good, because to your point — you wouldn't really want to watch a show where things are great and stay great, because that's boring. You want to watch a show where there's a narrative arc where things go up and they go down, they go back up again. And you don't know exactly what's going to happen next. And one thing's for sure, the future is going to be very interesting. In fact, I think we might be in an alien Netflix series here. So we're just going to keep the ratings up so we don't get cancelled. All right. Thank you guys.