Elon Musk just told you what Tesla was actually built for.
It was never cars.
Musk: “If successful, Optimus will be the biggest product ever.”
The automobile reshaped civilization. The smartphone rewired human behavior.
He’s saying Optimus dwarfs both.
Then he ranked it against everything else he’s building.
Musk: “It might be more of my mental cycles than anything else, any other single thing, on Optimus.”
The man building the world’s most valuable car company, landing rockets on drone ships, and racing toward superintelligence spends most of his thinking on the robot.
Musk: “It will have the manual dexterity of a human, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and be made in very high volume.”
Human hands. A mind that comprehends the physical world. Volume manufacturing.
Three problems no one has solved. He’s going after all three at once, in the same machine.
Musk: “None of the actuators in Optimus are available from an existing supply chain. We have to recreate it from scratch.”
No existing parts. No existing suppliers. No existing industry.
He’s building the entire manufacturing base from nothing. Then putting a robot on top of it.
This is the pattern people keep missing.
He didn’t build an electric car. He built Gigafactories, a global charging network, and a battery supply chain that made EVs inevitable. The car was the output.
He didn’t build a rocket. He built the engines, the factory, and the landing systems until reusable launch became routine. The rocket was the output.
Then the machine handed him a second business. Global satellite internet had been impossible for decades, not technically but financially, because nobody could afford to launch thousands of satellites.
Once the rockets came back and flew again, that cost collapsed. Starlink wasn’t a new bet. It was leftover capacity.
Same play. Every time. Build the machine that builds the machine. Then the thing becomes unstoppable.
Optimus is that play at a scale that makes everything before it look small.
Every product in human history extended a single human capability. The hammer extended the fist. The telescope extended the eye. The computer extended the mind.
Optimus doesn’t extend one capability. It replicates all of them. At volume.
Every economy, every government, every career path, every border ever drawn was organized around one scarcity. Human hands and human hours.
Optimus is what happens when that scarcity disappears.
For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output. What you could build. What you could carry. What you could produce.
Every one of those years was spent building tools to escape that measurement. Not once did we stop to ask what’s waiting on the other side.
We’re approaching the moment the measurement breaks.
Not a new product. Not a new industry. The first real test of whether we can define ourselves by anything other than our labor.
And the man forcing that question just told you it takes more of his mind than cars, rockets, and superintelligence combined.
Tesla is building a completely new production line for a product the world has never seen
Optimus Gen 3 is going to be absolute insanity
I don't think people realize how crazy this transition is going to be
I spent a few hours using Tesla FSD V14.3.5 on the Cybertruck yesterday.
I said this before, but I honestly think the Cybertruck is the best vessel for FSD. The way it handles tight spaces and sharp turns is impressive.
What makes the Cybertruck the best (imo) is the way it can just eat up the road under it. Potholes, rough roads, whatever, it doesn’t matter. Cybertruck glides over everything. That combined with amazing car control is why I think it’s the best, and most comfortable.
I just can’t get over how amazing FSD is these days. For the younger generation, self-driving will become the norm. For us, I don’t think it will ever get old.
I just created this 36-second video in just five minutes with a simple prompt using Agent Mode in Grok Imagine
All it took was a simple prompt, and it was made in just five minutes
With a single image, it can generate matching scenes from different angles, build a full visual storyline, and even add subtitles. Grok Imagine Agent is one of the best tools for visual storytelling
It's amazing how quickly you can now bring an idea to life just by expressing it in a few words
The barrier between imagination and creation is getting smaller every day
We are working to restore mobility that was lost due to disease or spinal cord injury by allowing participants to control robotic arms with their thoughts.
See how this is possible.
We’ve built a surgical robot to automate key steps in the process of receiving a Neuralink implant to promote safety, reliability, and scalability.
Learn more about the role of the robot and its future potential from the engineers helping develop it.
We're building a surgical robot capable of reaching any brain region. The goal: a generalized neural interface to help solve any condition that originates in the brain.
풀 셀프 드라이빙 (감독형) v14 Lite in Korea
업데이트는 차량별로 순차 제공되며, 적용 시점은 다를 수 있습니다. 아직 업데이트가 표시되지 않더라도 정상적인 배포 과정이므로 조금만 기다려 주시기 바랍니다.
*풀 셀프 드라이빙(감독형) v14 Lite는 현재 미국 생산 Model 3/Y(풀 셀프 드라이빙 컴퓨터 3) 차량 중 FSD(감독형)이 활성화된 차량에 한해 제공됩니다.
*풀 셀프 드라이빙(감독형) v14 Lite는 완전한 자율주행 기능이 아니며, 모든 장애물, 도로, 교통상황을 완벽히 인식하지 못할 수 있는바, 운전자는 항상 주의를 유지하고 즉시 제어할 준비가 되어 있어야 합니다.
Grok Build news: @SpaceXAI is back with a banger!
Some of the best changes in 0.2.105:
• Grok 4.5 is now the default model, with high, medium, and low reasoning effort
• /btw now works inside grok --minimal
• New /summarize command for instant session summaries
• Local shell tools now inherit your normal environment variables, aliases, and functions
• Improved long-session compaction
• Global rules are now discovered correctly
• Smoother scrolling under load and on slow connections
Plus a long list of bug fixes. Another seriously strong update.
When Cybercab arrives, the math will speak for itself.
A self-driving vehicle around $30K that reduces travel costs, eliminates parking hassles, and gives people back their time.
Sleep, work, run errands, or let it earn while you’re away.
Starlink is now powering Major League Fishing
Major League Fishing is making Starlink its primary connectivity solution across more than 150 live events every year
That means fast, reliable internet for:
• Real-time scoring
• Live video
• Production workflows
• Tournament coverage
• Remote lakes, rivers and reservoirs
MLF operates across wide-open water, remote venues and places where traditional connectivity can be unreliable or completely unavailable
Starlink is bringing real-time coverage to one of the hardest sports environments to connect
From airplanes and ships to disaster zones and now fishing tournaments, Starlink keeps proving the same thing: Where traditional networks stop, Starlink keeps going
Tesla’s global fleet has now crossed 12 billion cumulative miles driven on FSD (Supervised)
Tesla passed 10 billion miles in early May. Since then, owners have added another 2 billion miles in roughly just 75 days
That is around:
• 26 million miles per day
• 1 billion miles every ~38 days
• Nearly 1,000 miles every three seconds
The scale continues to grow:
• More markets are approving FSD (Supervised)
• European customers are beginning to contribute meaningful mileage
• Tesla’s global fleet continues to expand
• Every mile gives Tesla greater exposure to real-world roads and driving conditions
Tesla's latest safety reports vehicles using FSD (Supervised) experience:
• 7x fewer major collisions
• 7x fewer minor collisions
• 5x fewer non-highway collisions
Autonomy is scaling at an extraordinary pace
Tesla’s real-world fleet advantage is becoming increasingly difficult for competitors to match
SpaceX just launched 21 advanced data-transport satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency
The satellites will become part of a low-Earth-orbit network designed to deliver secure, resilient and low-latency communications while supporting the tracking of advanced missile threats
This was the third successful Tranche 1 launch, bringing the number of Tranche 1 satellites in orbit to 63
Falcon 9 booster B1103 completed its fourth flight and landed successfully on Of Course I Still Love You
SpaceX is not only building the world’s largest commercial satellite network
It is also becoming a launch backbone for America’s next-generation space defense architecture