Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of xAI. At Tesla he leads the Optimus humanoid robot program; at SpaceX he directs the Starship launch program and the company's AI-compute business. He is a frequent poster on X, where announcements and schedules he posts across Tesla, SpaceX and xAI are widely reported.
AI
Terafab: Musk's chip gigafab (compute for robots + space data centers)
X Money: the in-app payments lane
X Money is X's in-app payments layer: the Grok Bot finance-report connection surfaced October 21, and an in-app tipping gesture — long-press the like button to send $1 — announced October 24.…
Musk's pledge to give every US child one SpaceX share in 2027
The superintelligence rebrand: Trump's naming push meets Silicon Valley adoption
Grok Voice 3.0: speech-to-speech launch under the SpaceXSI banner
Grok in government: america.gov runs on Grok (watch)
Quiet threads
Closed threads
Agent-harness race: OpenClaw 2.0 and xAI Grok Build
OpenClaw and xAI's Grok Bot remain in a fast release race: OpenClaw pushed small patch releases, while Grok Bot announced phone-calling, phone-app integrations, and more commerce tools. The…
Risk governance: Anthropic's 10% warning, the doomer backlash, Christiano joins OpenAI
Space
Starship
Starship Flight 15 is now targeted for no earlier than November 12, after Booster 22 and Ship 42 completed static-fire tests; it is meant to attempt the first catch of both stages. SpaceX is also…
SpaceX earnings and financing
SpaceX, listed since June, reported third-quarter revenue up 161% on October 20 and a $4.4 billion net profit, with AI-compute revenue of $7.6 billion passing Starlink's. Musk says SpaceX has closed…
Musk's pledge to give every US child one SpaceX share in 2027
Robots
Tesla Optimus
Tesla has started initial mass production of Optimus at its Fremont plant, on the former Model S and Model X lines, aiming for 20,000 robots a week by late 2027 and outside deliveries around the end…
Predictions
- Elon Musk, Mar 11, 2026: Digital Optimus / Macrohard "user experience ready" September 2026 due overdue Source Tesla Optimus
- Elon Musk, Aug 20, 2026: first Ship tower catch "in a few months"; recovered-Ship reflight end 2026 / early 2027 review by pending Source Starship
- Elon Musk, Oct 6, 2026: SpaceX revenue mix: ~90% commercial this year, government "less than 5%" in Q4 review by pending Source Starship
- Elon Musk, Oct 1, 2026: Starship 2027 flight-rate forecast (daily → weekly/twice-weekly) due pending Source Starship
- Elon Musk, Sep 16, 2026: humanoids outnumber humans within 10 years review by pending Source Tesla Optimus
- Elon Musk, Oct 25, 2026: "a lot of stranded compute" in partially complete data centers review by pending Source The AI economy: inflation reads and capex math (watch)
- Elon Musk, Oct 24, 2026: SpaceX annual recurring revenue of $500B–$1T by the end of 2027 due pending Source Starship
- Elon Musk, Aug 24, 2026: Starmind AI1: Vera Rubin NVL72 in orbit, launch Q4 2027 due pending Source Orbital data centers / space compute (Starmind lineage)
- Elon Musk, Oct 17, 2026: >50% growth in US useful output by 2030 due to superintelligence due pending Source The superintelligence rebrand: Trump's naming push meets Silicon Valley adoption
- Elon Musk, Sep 27, 2025: Optimus annual production run-rate of 1 million by 2030 due pending Source Tesla Optimus
- Elon Musk, Sep 9, 2026: AI + robots will "more than double the global economy in less than 10 years" review by pending Source The AI economy: inflation reads and capex math (watch)
- Elon Musk, Sep 24, 2026: 1 billion robots "will outproduce humanity" in 10 years review by pending Source Tesla Optimus
- Elon Musk, Jan 29, 2025: Optimus: ~10,000 units produced in 2025 due missed Source Tesla Optimus
- Elon Musk: Optimus Gen 3 production start "before end of 2026" due hit Source Tesla Optimus