Today is @elonmusk's 55th birthday.
In those 55 years, he has only:
ā¢Ā Founded or co-founded 7 multi-billion- or trillion-dollar companies
ā¢Ā Made EVs mainstream
ā¢Ā Pioneered reusable rockets, reducing the cost of access to space
ā¢Ā Created 600,000 jobs (direct+supply-chain)
⢠Paid out more than $100B in salaries
ā¢Ā Restored astronaut launches to American soil
ā¢Ā Built a global satellite internet constellation used by millions and that connects schools in remote areas, hospitals in isolated regions, supports emergency responders after natural disasters, and more
⢠Created trillions of dollars in wealth for his company's shareholders & employees
ā¢Ā Enabled paralyzed/disabled people to control computers using thought, bringing more independence
ā¢Ā Created the most productive automotive factory in the U.S. (Tesla's Fremont factory)
ā¢Ā Created the Model Y, which become the #1 bestselling car in the world (first EV to do so)
⢠Created the first private company to dock with the International Space Station and send astronauts to orbit
⢠Became NASA's primary commercial launch provider
⢠Developed the first point-to-point self-driving system (FSD), improving road safety
ā¢Ā Built some of the world's largest and most advanced factories
⢠Built the world's largest fast-charging network for EVs
⢠Built one of the world's largest AI supercomputers
⢠Built operational underground transportation tunnels under Las Vegas
⢠Helped build what became PayPal and transformed online payments
⢠Done more than any single individual to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy
⢠Became the world's greatest entrepreneur
Maybe one day Elon will actually accomplish something š Happy Birthday!
SpaceX is such a bad ass company. In their IPO filing, they wrote this:
⢠The first private company to develop and launch a liquid-fuel rocket to reach orbit (2008)
⢠The first private company to successfully dock a private spacecraft with the International Space Station (2012)
⢠The first to successfully propulsively land (2015) and refly orbital-class rocket boosters (2017)
⢠The first to begin deploying a large-scale LEO broadband satellite constellation (2019);
⢠The first private company to transport astronauts to orbit, returning America's ability to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station (2020)
⢠The first to manufacture consumer-grade phased-array user terminals at scale (2022);
The first to deploy a large-scale LEO satellite-to-mobile constellation (2025)
⢠The first to build a gigawatt-scale Al training cluster and largest coherent supercomputer (2026)
⢠The first gigawatt-scale Megapack battery installation (2026); and
⢠The only company capable of building orbital AI compute at scale.
BOOM.
SpaceX is such a bad ass company. In their IPO filing, they wrote this:
⢠The first private company to develop and launch a liquid-fuel rocket to reach orbit (2008)
⢠The first private company to successfully dock a private spacecraft with the International Space Station (2012)
⢠The first to successfully propulsively land (2015) and refly orbital-class rocket boosters (2017)
⢠The first to begin deploying a large-scale LEO broadband satellite constellation (2019);
⢠The first private company to transport astronauts to orbit, returning America's ability to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station (2020)
⢠The first to manufacture consumer-grade phased-array user terminals at scale (2022);
The first to deploy a large-scale LEO satellite-to-mobile constellation (2025)
⢠The first to build a gigawatt-scale Al training cluster and largest coherent supercomputer (2026)
⢠The first gigawatt-scale Megapack battery installation (2026); and
⢠The only company capable of building orbital AI compute at scale.
BOOM.
Weāve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that weāve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
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šµš± As other countries in Europe go all in on modern architecture, Poland is out here still building castles š
Stobnica Castle may look medieval, but construction only started in 2015!
More of this, please.
Itās happening. Cybercab is in volume production.
No steering wheel. No pedals. Nothing to take over.
Itās made to drive itself from day one.
Under $30K. Canāt be ignored.
Now itās real.
@Tesla
Elon Musk just put a number on the flaw at the center of Nvidiaās empire.
Wall Street has not done the math yet.
Nvidiaās Blackwell is the most sought-after silicon on Earth.
Every AI lab wants it. Every sovereign nation is bidding for it.
Blackwell runs every model, for every company, in every data center on the planet.
That universality built the empire.
It is also the fracture point.
Musk: āWe believe the AI5 chip will be about a third of the power of an Nvidia Blackwell for roughly comparable performance. And much less than 10% of the cost.ā
One-third the power.
Comparable performance.
Less than ten percent of the cost.
Musk: āThis is a chip that is very much optimized for the Tesla AI software stack. Itās not meant to be a general purpose chip.ā
Nvidia builds silicon that serves a million different customers.
Every transistor spent on universal compatibility is a transistor not dedicated to one task.
Tesla is building silicon for exactly one customer.
Itself.
When you strip away every function you will never call, you do not get a lesser chip.
You get a weapon.
Here is what the market refuses to see.
Data centers drink unlimited power from the grid.
Robots run on batteries.
Musk: āIn order to have a functional robot, you have to have a great AI chip. And it needs to be an inexpensive chip and it needs to be very power efficient.ā
You cannot put a Blackwell inside a walking machine.
It would drain the battery before it crossed the room.
The entire AI revolution lives inside air-conditioned buildings bolted to the electrical grid.
Musk is not competing for that market.
He is engineering the silicon that survives outside of it.
One-third the power is not a spec sheet footnote.
It is the physics threshold that severs intelligence from the wall socket.
Without that number, every robot on Earth stays tethered.
With it, the algorithm walks.
Less than ten percent of the cost is not a pricing strategy.
It is the line where a machine brain stops being a capital expenditure and becomes a commodity component.
When the chip inside a humanoid costs less than the motors in its legs, you do not manufacture hundreds of robots.
You manufacture millions.
Wall Street is valuing the AI revolution by who dominates the data center.
Musk is building the only silicon designed to leave one.
Nvidia built the brain of the cloud.
Musk is building the brain of the physical world.
No one has priced that in yet.
Swedens šøšŖ Minister of Infrastructure @andreas_carlson has the chance to shine.
RDW in the Netherlands š³š± approved Tesla's supervised self driving systems for use in consumer cars.
The RDW concluded that FSD Supervised makes a positive contribution to road safely.
As the current Minister of Infrastructure, you have an unmatched opportunity to improve road safely in Sweden. By actively working for the implementation and recognition of exemption here.
The Netherlands are on par with Swedish road safty. You now have the chance of contributing to the single biggest traffic safty improvements in modern history.
And remeber, you miss 100% of the chances you dont take.