𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤

Making Life Multiplanetary

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Emirates executive Patrick Brannelly in new interview on why they adopted @Starlink:

"The legacy systems weren’t working. No matter how much money we threw at them, passengers still complained, and it was impossible technically for everybody that wanted to connect to connect. Then Starlink came along saying, ‘We guarantee it, it will work.’ With a very pragmatic technical viewpoint, insisting on XWAPs, to connect 100%, and to install more than one antenna to handle demand and for redundancy. It was like for the first time, talking to people that actually understood how the internet works in a highly dense environment on an aircraft.

It seemed our legacy connectivity industry didn’t really understand the core technologies needed to deliver customer connectivity happiness. But Starlink absolutely understood it.

Now, in addition, the big fundamental shift from the first generation of Starlink was the evolution of satellite-to-satellite laser connectivity. So, if you’re a middle of the ocean, where you’ve got nowhere to ground the traffic, Starlink could just pass the traffic through adjacent satellites until there’s one over a ground station. That worked much better than I think anybody had imagined."

Emirates has already started to install Starlink on its entire fleet of ~232 aircraft, with full completion expected by mid-2027. Customers onboard with Starlink are already seeing 10-20X internet speed improvements.

(full SatelliteToday interview linked below)

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

NEWS: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to adopt Grok.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it’s “proud” to move forward with a plan to deploy xAI’s Grok across the agency.

The USDA is also sponsoring Grok for federal approval, calling it a step toward equipping its workforce with the most capable AI available.

A major win for xAI.

(Source: Fast Company)

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Armageddon awaits the Senate GOP if we don’t get the SAVE America Act passed into law

Let’s freaking go!

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

Elon Musk is right to fight race laws in South Africa.
You should too.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Grok continues to lead global benchmarks:

• #1 in AA Omniscience (lowest hallucination rate)
• #1 in IFBench performance
• #1 on BridgeBench Reasoning
• #1 on BridgeBench Speed
• #1 on BridgeBench Lowest Hallucination
• #1 in Text Arena (medicine & healthcare)
• #1 in Video Edit Arena
• #1 in AlphaArena Leaderboard

Grok is dominating. 🔥

[Adam Lowisz X Meetup 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 @AdamLowisz]

A united Western Civilization must put pressure on the racist South African government to end Apartheid 2.0. We will end anti-White racism in the 21st century.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Horrific

[Tesla @Tesla]

https://t.co/FrWpKzTkjj

[Adam Lowisz X Meetup 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 @AdamLowisz]

It's time for us to dismantle racism once and for all, that includes Apartheid 2.0 that prevents Elon from doing business in South Africa because of his skin color.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink provides global high-speed, low-latency Internet

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: Tesla will build an Optimus Academy to train tens of thousands of robots via self-play.

“We're going to need to build a lot of robots and put them in kind of like an Optimus Academy so they can do self play in reality. So we're actually building that out so we can have at least 10,000 Optimus robots, maybe 20 or 30,000 that can do that, are doing self-play and testing different tasks.

And then Tesla has quite a good reality generator, like a physics accurate reality generator that we made this for the cars, we'll do the same thing for the robots and actually have done that for the robots.

So, you have a few tens of thousands of humanoid robots doing different tasks and then you can do millions of simulated robots in the simulated world and you use the tens of thousands of robots in the real world to close the simulation to reality gap, close the sim to real gap.”

Interview with John Collison and Dwarkesh Patel, February 5, 2026

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: Maybe the biggest danger associated with AI and robotics is that governments use them to suppress the population.

“Maybe the biggest danger for AI and robotics going wrong is government. People who are opposed to corporations or worried about corporations should really worry the most about government, because government is just a corporation in the limit. Government is just the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence.

I always find it a strange dichotomy where people would think corporations are bad, but the government is good, when the government is simply the biggest and worst corporation. But people have that dichotomy. They somehow think at the same time the government can be good, but corporations bad. And this is not true. Corporations have better morality than the government.

That is the thing to be worried about. The government could potentially use AI and robotics to suppress the population. That is a serious concern.”

Interview with John Collison and Dwarkesh Patel, February 5, 2026

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Kevin O'Leary on Elon Musk and his plan to deploy AI satellites: “The guy executes, and that's remarkable.”

“Very few people at this point would doubt Elon on anything. He kind of has mandates and he delivers one way or the other.

Chinese are kicking our butts. They put on 500 gigawatts of power last year in China, mostly with coal-burning plants. They don't have the vision of space, but that means they're going to beat us in AI data centers on the ground. And so there's a lot of concern about that. We're trying to get nuclear going. That's 15 years away. This data center thing is a big problem to stay competitive.

But I love [Elon's] vision of this. The thing about Elon is he's the modern Bruce Wayne, there's no question about it. I've backed him from financial purposes, investing in his deals forever. There's a lot of skepticism about him. You never get the timing right, but the guy executes, and that's remarkable.”

Kevin O'Leary on Fox News, February 4, 2026

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: NGO fraud financed by taxpayer money is happening everywhere.

“One of the biggest fraud hauls we've uncovered, which is really crazy, is that the government can give money to a so-called nonprofit with very few controls. And there's no auditing subsequently of that nonprofit.

They then give themselves extremely lavish, insane salaries, expense everything to the nonprofit. Buy jets and homes and all sorts of things. This is happening at scale. It's not just one or two. We're seeing this everywhere.”

Interview with Ted Cruz, March 10, 2025

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Here's Elon Musk explaining how any country can become prosperous.

“As government spending is made more efficient and spending is reduced, the tax by inflation is reduced. So, one way or another, you will effectively be better off if resources in the United States are not wasted.

People will do more useful jobs than before. The total output of goods and services will increase and then the average standard of living will increase.

The most important lesson in economics is simply common sense. The more people in a country that are engaged in producing useful products and services, the better off that country will be.

Town Hall in Wisconsin, March 30, 2025

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk in 2012: “I think we're at the dawn of a new era, and I think it's going to be very exciting. What we're hoping to do with SpaceX is to push the envelope and provide a reason for people to be excited and inspired to be human.”

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk on starting his first company: I thought it would fail and I'd need to come back to college.

“Back in '95, I was faced with a choice of either doing grad studies, a PhD at Stanford in material science, actually working on ultracapacitors for potential use in electric vehicles, essentially trying to solve the range problem, or trying to do something in this thing that most people had never heard of called the Internet.

I talked to my professor, who was Bill Nix in the Material Science department, and asked, can I defer for the quarter because this would probably fail, and then I'll need to come back to college. He said, this is probably the last conversation we'll have. And he was right. But I thought things would most likely fail, not that they would most likely succeed.”

Interview at Y Combinator, June 16, 2025

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: People should be allowed to say things that are within the law.

“If the law isn't good enough, then great, well, talk to your elected representative and have them pass a law to change that. But otherwise we need to hold true to the Constitution and the laws and allow people to say things even if we don't like what they say. Obviously, the true test for free speech is when someone says something you don't like, because otherwise it's obviously not free speech.”

Interview with Ben Shapiro, January 24, 2024

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: There's some weird things going on in Europe. People get prison sentences for social media posts. I don't think I should visit.

“There's some weird things going on in Europe. We've got quite a lot of bureaucracy here, but in Europe they've got country-level bureaucracy and then they've got EU bureaucracy on top of that. The EU headquarters in Brussels is a monument to bureaucracy. Unlike America, they don't have a First Amendment, so you don't actually have freedom of speech in Europe.

There's crazy stuff happening in the UK where, you know, people are getting like two, three year prison sentences for Facebook posts. I don't think I should go to visit Britain because I'm like, they're gonna like drag out some tweet and say two years in prison for this tweet or some bullshit like that, you know. With Trump elected, we can put a stop to that stuff and say like, ah, no way. Nope. No throwing people in prison for random social media posts. That's crazy.”

Town Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 18, 2024