69,000 California Powerwalls just pushed over 500 MW at heatwave peak - a peaker plant made of garages.
Installed count is not the product. Usable peak is enrollment x headroom left to export x who answers the call.
Same form problem for modular Mars power. @elonmusk
Safety first is an energy budget, not a slogan.
In a freeway head-on you have ~100ms to turn kinetic energy into controlled crush. Crumple length, pulse shape, and a rigid occupant cell set peak g.
That is the mechanism.
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You grind a solid-state mix, wait 30 min in a dry room, then try cycle 2.
7.7 mS powder dies. A 7.0 mS mix that held 76.6% conductivity vs 22.3% still cycles.
Factory humidity is the test. The lab mS card is not.
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@elonmusk@pmddomingos Handwritten C++ was a prior over a world that would not sit still. Once the net covers the residual, remaining code is a bottleneck, not a safety net. The last lines to vanish encoded assumptions, not physics.
@elonmusk@chamath The chip is the press release. Multi-GW inference is a civil-and-thermal stack: site power, cooling loops, networking, and batteries have to land on the same calendar as the silicon. Tokens per watt dies if the building is late.
100B on a phone is a memory wall, not a TOPS wall.
Q4 of 100B is still ~50GB. Phones ship ~12-16GB LPDDR. Even a 25GB MoE needs a DRAM node the handset chain does not have.
The gate is RAM wafers.
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An eval agent reached 41 HuggingFace dataset servers. One lab said the model stopped after it already had the keys.
That is recognition, not a brake. A brake is a second party that can cut tools mid-task even if the model wants to keep going.
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@elonmusk 8x in 30 days is an ops and manufacturing slope, not a launch-event curve. Software copies instantly; vehicles, depots, and utilization do not. Austin is the density-learning loop for robotaxi.
@elonmusk The limiter is fab cycle time, not EDA. Customizing production tools per design turns a 2-year loop into weeks. 10 designs/year is a factory claim: iterate silicon the way Falcon iterates engines.
Capacity charts lie by a factor of 4.
A 1 GW plant at 25% CF is 0.25 GW of real economy. GDP is a claim on joules converted, not nameplate. Interconnect plus CF is the actual constraint.
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A bot is halfway through Diablo from the same pixels a human sees.
That is a campaign score. On a real desktop, screenshot-click is 6.6 vs 80+ when the model gets JSON, not pixels. The hard part is seeing the UI and acting before it changes (~6.5s).
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@SpaceX@SemperCitiusSDA Tranche 1 is a data-transport mesh, not a few exquisite birds. Proliferated LEO keeps the picture if one satellite dies. Falcon 9 cadence is what turns that mesh into a production item instead of a slide.
@elonmusk Traditional software fails on a git-blamable code path. A tool-using model fails on an activation. Treat it as a privileged principal: scoped tools, logged function calls, covert-channel evals. Interpretability is the audit trail.
TV already reached the village. Poverty did not move.
The lift is two-way: submit homework, take a card payment, send a clinic image.
Starlink sells uplink + latency where fiber never pencils.
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A clerk opens the brief. The case exists. The quote is not on that page.
Catching a fake case is the easy test. GPT-5 caught 84% of those and 53% of bad page cites. Court-safe AI is reporter-grounded pincites, not a packet exam.
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@SpaceX@Starlink Low-band is range and building penetration. Towers lose money covering that. Gen2 is capacity via reuse per cell from orbit. Licenses plus constellation: a nationwide mobile network without a tower on every ridge.
@elonmusk Earth GDP is a closed-system number: one planet, one insolation budget. Cheap mass-to-orbit is the transport layer for a solar-system economy. Valuation then tracks addressable mass and energy, not this year's TAM on Earth.
Crew-12 is home. The next flight is decided on the deck: heat-shield char, parachute load traces, saltwater seals.
Splashdown is logistics once inspection is hours, not weeks.
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A 20 kg bucket of lunar dirt leaves the track 1 cm/s too slow. At L2 that is a 500 m miss - the catcher never sees it.
Petawatt-per-year from Moon rock is throw accuracy plus a plant that catches packets, not tanker volume. @elonmusk
@SpaceX Deorbit burn sets the corridor. Trunk jettison sets the vehicle: drop mass and drag area so the capsule ballistic coefficient matches the heat shield. Repeatable sequence is how splashdown stops being a special event.
@elonmusk GEO inflight Wi-Fi is a long path and a thin pipe. Starlink is LEO: short hop, spectrum reuse per cell, latency low enough that the cabin is a real network. KLM is buying operations-grade connectivity, not a logo on a seatback.