Elon Musk just said the most important economic sentence of the decade.
Wall Street still hasn’t processed it.
Musk: “At a very high level, I’d say that autonomy is an insanely fundamental breakthrough. And no one is even close to Tesla.”
Not slightly ahead. No one is even close.
While the entire automotive industry spent a century perfecting a machine that sits parked 95% of its life, Musk was asking a different question.
What if the car was just the beginning?
Musk: “With self-driving, the car becomes roughly five times more useful, but it costs the same to build.”
Same factory. Same steel. Five times the utility.
Musk: “Can you imagine what would happen if a company were doing 25% to 30% gross margins, but suddenly that same thing was five times more valuable. It boggles the mind, actually.”
That is not a product upgrade.
That is the most violent repricing of a physical asset in modern economic history.
But the car was never the real product.
Musk: “We will leverage our manufacturing expertise and the intelligence we’ve developed for self-driving to have a useful humanoid robot.”
The neural network that absorbed every edge case, every near-miss, every chaotic road condition at a scale no research program on earth could replicate.
Now gets a body.
Musk: “The economy is fundamentally GDP per capita times capita.”
In every civilization that has ever existed, output had one hard ceiling.
The number of human bodies available to work.
Musk: “If you no longer have a constraint on capita because of a useful humanoid robot, it’s not clear that there’s any limit to the size of the economy.”
Not a new market cycle.
The permanent demolition of the only ceiling every economy in human history has ever shared.
Every mile a Tesla drives is a training rep.
No simulation. No research grant. No government contract.
A self-funding intelligence machine built on public roads, financed by the largest crowdsourced real-world training program in history.
The competitors still selling traditional vehicles are not losing market share.
They are being made mathematically obsolete by a man who used the car industry as a vessel to build something that has never existed before.
The car was never the destination.
It was the most ambitious laboratory ever built, hiding in plain sight on every road on earth.
A neural network forged in real traffic, real weather, real consequences at global scale.
Ready to walk into every factory, every hospital, every warehouse on earth.
The highway was never the ceiling.
It was the floor.
I’m genuinely proud of how real our Impact Program at ElevenLabs has become. It started with one clear goal - helping bring voices back for people who have lost them. Today, we’ve been able to work with over 5,000 people.
It began organically, with people reaching out to us for help. We then formalized it into Impact Program where, together with other organizations, we provide free technology and services to help people get their voice back. I couldn’t have imagined how many incredible partners would want to work alongside us to support them. Now we have 100+ partners for this cause - nonprofits, clinics, and groups on the ground - working with us to support people through the whole journey.
As part of this, we wanted to tell the stories of individuals who, despite what they’re going through, continue to inspire. Over the past few months, our team has traveled the world to record 11 stories and create a short documentary, Eleven Voices - soon premiering at SXSW. You can watch the trailer narrated (with permission) by an AI voice of Sir Michael Caine below!
Introducing Eleven v3 (alpha) - the most expressive Text to Speech model ever.
Supporting 70+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue, and audio tags such as [excited], [sighs], [laughing], and [whispers].
Now in public alpha and 80% off in June.
At the Dalí Museum, visitors can pick up a surrealist lobster phone and hear the artist’s voice respond in real time.
More than 70,000 conversations have taken place with AI Salvador Dalí in the last year.
Battered and bruised. Nothing but applause for the master of Strade Bianche.
🔻 The @continentaltire last KM of #StradeBianche
La caduta e la fatica alle spalle, solo applausi per il padrone della Strade Bianche .
🔻 Il @continentaltire Ultimo KM della #StradeBianche@CA_Ita
Desde el punto de vista geoestrategico no puedes permitirte que tu país esté así un mes después de la tragedia.
Se nos olvida que esto es una demostración de debilidad enorme.
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¡HISTORIA DEL MOTOCICLISMO ESPAÑOL! 🇪🇸
@88jorgemartin completa la gesta y es el NUEVO CAMPEÓN DEL MUNDO DE #MotoGP
¡Este tío no viene de un satélite, este tío viene DE OTRO PLANETA! 🥹👏🔥🪐
I live in Mountain View and we rent.
The other day, someone asked me on LinkedIn what was the point not spending while earning high.
We don't live in a mansion but our kids are happy.
Instead of eating out expensive food, our kids love what my wife and I cook every day.
We see a neighbor kid sent to school by a hired driver while we walk and talk to the elementary school every morning as a whole family.
Instead of stressing out at a big tech, I run a one-person tech business on my term.
My wife and I saved and invested enough and now our annual investment return alone is much bigger than the money we spend. So whether we work is a choice. We are in our healthy 40s and still love working.
We aren't too thrifty but never upgraded our lifestyle like others do around here in Silicon Valley. That was the key for the growing assets.
We don't look like rich people, but we have time freedom, choice, and peace of mind thanks to that.
(Wow, that was a long reply.)