Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI.
Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software.
You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind).
This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal.
In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft.
No other company can yet do this.
Alex Karp, CEO of @PalantirTech at @a16z summit: “If Silicon Valley believes we’re going to take everyone’s white collar jobs…AND screw the military…If you don’t think that’s going to lead to the nationalization of our technology—you’re retarded”
I interviewed @aubreydegrey on why neither billionaires nor AI will solve aging. And why a single mouse breakthrough could be the ChatGPT moment for longevity.
0:00 - Longevity Field 20 Years On
08:58 - Are Billionaires Getting It Wrong?
17:13 - Bryan Johnson vs Peter Thiel
23:42 - ChatGPT Moment for Longevity
28:52 - Biological Age vs Lifespan
34:44 - Influencers Will Save Us
39:36 - AI x Science Breakthroughs
48:14 - Sam Altman on Aging
53:39 - Genesis Mission
56:45 - Systems Will Collapse
1:08:55 - GLP-1s & Human Enhancement
Trump's friends-and-family approach to clemency has spawned a pardon-shopping industry where lobbyists say their going rate is $1 million and some have been offered success fees of as much as $6 million, report @rebeccaballhaus@jdawsey1@cryanbarber https://t.co/ufu99gVgUW
An autonomous @rivr_tech delivery robot being tested in Pittsburgh. Snow, ice, hills and stairs everywhere: it was genuinely feeling dangerous as a human to go outside at times. Really a great stress test for the robots.
🔥 Elon Musk just summed up modern slavery in one sentence:
“You work. You get taxed. You buy something. You get taxed. You own something. You get taxed again.”
It’s the loop of quiet control — a system designed to keep you compliant while the government spends your money on causes you never consented to.
Every paycheck, every purchase, every property — siphoned through layers of bureaucracy.
And what’s left? A fraction of what you earned, traded for a false sense of freedom.
Musk’s point cuts deep:
The problem isn’t just taxation — it’s how it’s weaponized.
To fund endless wars.
To bankroll wasteful projects.
To grow a government that lives off your labor while pretending to “serve” you.
It’s not public service anymore.
It’s public extraction.
Time to break the loop.
Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim. https://t.co/UFebMWrYr1
Kamala Harris claimed that Donald Trump was an 'unserious' person:
"We talked about those lids. You know how those lids on those Starbucks cups, they're white, right?
So if you wear lipstick, they get all over the lid. So I find myself in meetings, if I'm the only woman, I keep taking the lid off and having my cup out, so I don't have that big lipstick mark on the lid.
So I said can we do something about the color of the lid?
*Violently shakes laughing at her own joke for nearly 10 seconds*
So that was that conversation."
Putin and Xi are on their knees praying every single day that Kamala Harris 'wins' after weeks of vote counting after election day.