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There's something very funny about Optimus explaining first principles. A humanoid robot calmly describing the mindset that helped create rockets, EVs, factories, and eventually itself. First principles thinking is basically Elon refusing to accept the “because that’s how it’s always done” answer. At Tesla and SpaceX, the question is...

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60,324 views • 19 days ago

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354,581 views • 8 months ago

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Tesla Optimus just walked into Elon Musk's home, set the bags down, and said it's ready to assist. Not a factory. Not a controlled lab. A living room. Projected unit cost is around $20,000. A full-time household assistant in the US runs $40,000 to $60,000 a year. The math clears before year one ends. Nobody runs that number because the robot is not in your house yet. It is in his.

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ELON: BRANDS ARE BUILT IN FACTORIES, NOT BILLBOARDS Branding? Please. That’s just the echo of great engineering! Brand isn’t crafted in ad agencies - it’s hammered out on factory floors. The Blueprint for Hype: •⁠ ⁠Build something people can’t stop talking about •⁠ ⁠Let the next release sell itself •⁠ ⁠Keep stacking wins - the trust snowballs From Model S to Cybertruck, from Falcon 1 to Starship - Tesla and SpaceX didn’t buy trust, they earned it one product at a time! Source: Elon Musk, Elon Clips, Tesla Shareholder Meeting, June 4, 2013

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93,884 views • 11 months ago

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Elon Musk just said something that disqualifies most of Silicon Valley. Musk: “If you’re gonna create a company, the first thing you should try to do is create a working prototype.” Not a pitch deck. Not a business model. Not a funding narrative wrapped in 40 slides designed to make something that doesn’t exist sound inevitable. A working prototype. That alone rules out most of the people who call themselves founders. Musk: “Everything looks great on PowerPoint. You can make anything work on PowerPoint.” That’s not a punchline. It’s an indictment. PowerPoint has no physics. No engineering constraints. No supply chain. No thermal limits. No gravity. Nothing that forces an idea to prove it deserves to exist in the physical world. It is the most effective tool ever built for making the impossible look funded. Spend long enough in that world, and the distance between something that works and something that looks like it works stops feeling important. That is the real damage. Musk: “If you have an actual demonstration article, even if it’s in primitive form, that’s much, much more effective for convincing people.” Even if it barely functions. Even if half of it is held together with tape. Even if it looks like it has no business working yet. Because a crude prototype carries something a polished deck never will. Proof. Not projected proof. Not modeled proof. Not “if we hit these assumptions” proof. The kind that sits on a table and either works or doesn’t. No narrative saves it. No charisma rescues it. No market-sizing slide covers for it. It just has to be real. That is the gap between Musk and the rest of the industry. Not intelligence. Not capital. Not ambition. He builds first. Then talks. Everyone else talks first. Then fundraises to find out if the thing could even be built. The distance between those two sequences is the entire history of why most things never get made. The professional world is engineered to produce one type of person. Someone who can describe, in extraordinary detail, what they would build if given the resources. Not someone who builds. MBA programs train you to present. Accelerators train you to present. Pitch competitions are literally scored on who presents best. The system does not reward builders. It rewards the performance of building. And the people deepest inside that system are the last ones who will ever notice. Musk landed a rocket on a drone ship in the ocean. Then caught a 23-story booster out of the sky with mechanical arms on the launch tower. He didn’t pitch that. He did it. Then the world watched and tried to process what it just saw. That is what separates someone who builds from someone who performs. PowerPoint is where ideas go to be believed. The prototype is where they go to be proven. Most careers begin and end in the first. Not because people can’t build. Because the performance felt so much like progress that nobody ever stopped to check.

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16,878 views • 27 days ago

Cybercab can change the whole emissions equation. Tesla projects it could nearly halve emissions per mile compared to Model 3 and Model Y. The reason? It actually works for a living. Most personal cars sit parked around 95% of the time. Cybercab does the opposite. Pick up. Drop off. Repeat. One car doing the work of several. Fewer cars needed. More people moved. Less waste per mile. That is how autonomy starts to look very useful. Tesla / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné
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Cybercab can change the whole emissions equation. Tesla projects it could nearly halve emissions per mile compared to Model 3 and Model Y. The reason? It actually works for a living. Most personal cars sit parked around 95% of the time. Cybercab does the opposite. Pick up. Drop off. Repeat. One car doing the work of several. Fewer cars needed. More people moved. Less waste per mile. That is how autonomy starts to look very useful. Tesla / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

Mario Nawfal

79,662 views • 27 days ago

If you look at the Optimus video that Tesla just released more closely, you’ll notice how incredible this is. First, Optimus is walking blindly bc Tesla Vision is turned off. Second, Optimus is walking on mulched ground, which is naturally slippery. Third, Optimus is keeping its balance, only with other on-board sensors consumed by a neural net on its embedded computer. Fourth, notice how right before falling, Optimus quickly positions its left leg far back enough to prevent falling. Fifth, Optimus uses a combination of its arms and waste turning to maintain balance when tripping. I am of the belief that the Tesla Bot is going to make the EV, Energy, FSD, Robotaxi business in combination look like peanuts compared to what this product is going to do. What we just witnessed is nothing short of extraordinary.
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If you look at the Optimus video that Tesla just released more closely, you’ll notice how incredible this is. First, Optimus is walking blindly bc Tesla Vision is turned off. Second, Optimus is walking on mulched ground, which is naturally slippery. Third, Optimus is keeping its balance, only with other on-board sensors consumed by a neural net on its embedded computer. Fourth, notice how right before falling, Optimus quickly positions its left leg far back enough to prevent falling. Fifth, Optimus uses a combination of its arms and waste turning to maintain balance when tripping. I am of the belief that the Tesla Bot is going to make the EV, Energy, FSD, Robotaxi business in combination look like peanuts compared to what this product is going to do. What we just witnessed is nothing short of extraordinary.

Teslaconomics

92,587 views • 1 year ago

I genuinely think the Terafab is going to end up being one of the biggest moves ever made in human history to secure the future of AI... and I think most people still don’t fully see what Elon is trying to do here. The signs are clear to me. This is Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX essentially hinting to us that they are not going to wait on the world to give them the compute the team needs. They are going to build it themselves at a scale no one has ever attempted. When you really break it down, it gets a bit nutty. This is going to be a fully vertically integrated chip factory that will be producing over 1 terawatt of AI compute per year. This is NEXT LEVEL BIG. Today, AI is limited by chips. You can have the best models, the best engineers, the best everything... but if you don’t have enough compute, you will eventually hit a wall. Elon told us, the world can only supply a tiny fraction of the chips his companies will need. So this is the solution. Terafab puts everything under one roof like design, manufacturing, memory, packaging, testing, which means that they can build chips very fast.. like really fast. I'm talking about 100-200 billion custom AI chips per year at full capacity. Chips designed specifically for: • Tesla cars and Optimus robots • xAI models • Space-based compute You see, while other companies and CEOs are thinking Earth, Elon is planning for AI in space. Around ~80% of the compute is expected to go orbital, powered by solar energy bc Earth simply doesn’t have enough electricity. The U.S. grid is only about ~0.5 terawatts, while space has basically UNLIMITED energy if you can capture it. And this is the steps to get it: Starship launches → space compute → solar-powered AI → feeds back into everything to Earth. Bro... Elon and his companies are playing at a whole different level... And this is why I keep telling people that the Terafab is going to be the secret ingredient that will be the real unlock for everything: • Robotaxis at scale • Billions of Optimus robots • Massive AI models running 24/7 • Future off-world, other planet infrastructure Without these chips, none of this can happen... but with the Terafab, all of this becomes possible. That’s why Elon is calling it “the final missing piece.” I agree.
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I genuinely think the Terafab is going to end up being one of the biggest moves ever made in human history to secure the future of AI... and I think most people still don’t fully see what Elon is trying to do here. The signs are clear to me. This is Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX essentially hinting to us that they are not going to wait on the world to give them the compute the team needs. They are going to build it themselves at a scale no one has ever attempted. When you really break it down, it gets a bit nutty. This is going to be a fully vertically integrated chip factory that will be producing over 1 terawatt of AI compute per year. This is NEXT LEVEL BIG. Today, AI is limited by chips. You can have the best models, the best engineers, the best everything... but if you don’t have enough compute, you will eventually hit a wall. Elon told us, the world can only supply a tiny fraction of the chips his companies will need. So this is the solution. Terafab puts everything under one roof like design, manufacturing, memory, packaging, testing, which means that they can build chips very fast.. like really fast. I'm talking about 100-200 billion custom AI chips per year at full capacity. Chips designed specifically for: • Tesla cars and Optimus robots • xAI models • Space-based compute You see, while other companies and CEOs are thinking Earth, Elon is planning for AI in space. Around ~80% of the compute is expected to go orbital, powered by solar energy bc Earth simply doesn’t have enough electricity. The U.S. grid is only about ~0.5 terawatts, while space has basically UNLIMITED energy if you can capture it. And this is the steps to get it: Starship launches → space compute → solar-powered AI → feeds back into everything to Earth. Bro... Elon and his companies are playing at a whole different level... And this is why I keep telling people that the Terafab is going to be the secret ingredient that will be the real unlock for everything: • Robotaxis at scale • Billions of Optimus robots • Massive AI models running 24/7 • Future off-world, other planet infrastructure Without these chips, none of this can happen... but with the Terafab, all of this becomes possible. That’s why Elon is calling it “the final missing piece.” I agree.

Teslaconomics

25,494 views • 4 months ago

Grok is about to get a lot more passports. Tesla is bringing its in-car xAI assistant to India, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Which makes sense, because a car assistant gets much more useful when it can handle real-world chaos in real languages. Routes. Questions. Local navigation. Random curiosity from the passenger seat. Possibly one “unhinged” personality too many. The car used to answer with warning lights and a navigation screen. Now it is getting a personality that does more than beep politely. It actually talks back with a bit more brain behind it. Tesla Grok xAI / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Janné
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Grok is about to get a lot more passports. Tesla is bringing its in-car xAI assistant to India, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Which makes sense, because a car assistant gets much more useful when it can handle real-world chaos in real languages. Routes. Questions. Local navigation. Random curiosity from the passenger seat. Possibly one “unhinged” personality too many. The car used to answer with warning lights and a navigation screen. Now it is getting a personality that does more than beep politely. It actually talks back with a bit more brain behind it. Tesla Grok xAI / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Janné

Mario Nawfal

44,526 views • 19 days ago