This is actually insane.
SPCX just hit $3 trillion market cap. Bigger than Amazon and Microsoft. Less than a week after IPOing at $1.75T
Here’s why this is happening:
Only about 4% of total shares were released in the IPO. The other 96% is locked up. Insiders, employees, early investors, big institutional holders. All on a staggered release schedule.
So when buyers come in, they are hitting a tiny pool of actual tradable shares. The order book has almost nothing on the ask side. Price has to gap higher to bring out marginal sellers, which is why you are seeing these violent moves on what looks like normal volume.
And here is the kicker. Market cap is calculated on every share that exists. Even the locked-up 96%. So the headline number is exploding past $3T while the real float is tiny.
This is low-float mechanics at a scale nobody has EVER seen before.
Now the important part.
The insiders cannot sell yet. The lockup releases happen in phases. First big chunks come in August after the first earnings report. Then more through the fall with performance-based gates. Then scheduled tranches into December. Elon is locked up for 366 days on top of all that.
Right now, supply is frozen.
That changes soon.
Once those unlock dates hit, the float starts expanding in waves. And if most of this buying has been speculative momentum (which I suspect it has), the balance is going to shift fast when sellers can finally hit the market.
This is a supply-constrained squeeze.
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SpaceX has just officially unveiled its AI1 satellite, the first generation of its AI satellite.
Overall Specs:
• 150 kW peak compute payload
• 120 kW average compute payload
• 70 kW per ton
• Compute provider interchangeable
Dimensions:
• Wingspan: 70 meters
• Deployed height: 20 meters
Thermal System:
• 110 m² deployable liquid radiator
• Redundant pumping loops
• Integrated micrometeoroid shielding
• Deployable liquid radiators
Solar Power System:
• 150 kW solar array
• 250 W/m²
• SpaceX-manufactured solar technology from Bastrop, Texas
Architecture:
• Centralized compute module
• Large deployable solar arrays
• Deployable liquid-radiator thermal management system
• AI-focused compute satellite design ("AI1 satellite")
Elon: "The AI satellite is much simpler than a Starlink satellite. The AI satellite is essentially a lot of solar cells, you still need some laser links, but you don't have all of the super complex antennas that you have on a Starlink satellite. The easier one to design for is the AI satellite. It's bigger. A lot of this is technology we've already made with the Starlink V3 satellites."
$TSLA - TESLA'S FUTURE IS ROBOTICS, NOT CARS
J.P. Morgan upgraded Tesla to “neutral” from “underweight,” saying the stock’s value is increasingly tied to autonomous driving, robotics, AI, and software rather than near-term EV earnings. The bank raised its price target to $475 from $145, citing Tesla’s strong hardware-software integration and long-term growth potential. However, it warned that regulatory, safety, and execution risks remain significant.
Wow, the S&P Dow Jones Indices has just officially announced that they will NOT be changing their inclusion rules to make it easier for “MegaCap” companies (such as @SpaceX) to be fast-tracked into the S&P 500.
Their reasoning:
"S&P DJI determined that exceptions to the financial viability, seasoning, and IWF requirements should not be granted solely based on market capitalization. The decision not to adopt the proposed exceptions preserves core index principles by maintaining consistent application of these key requirements. Although there may be trade-offs between strict adherence to these eligibility requirements and broad representativeness, the current methodology provides substantial market coverage and sector balance. As a result, the indices can continue to meet their stated objectives while preserving their role as representative and investable benchmarks for the U.S. equity market.
No changes will be made to the eligibility criteria including financial viability screens, seasoning period, or minimum IWF, for the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, or S&P SmallCap 600 as a result of the S&P Dow Jones Indices consultation on the treatment of MegaCap companies. Accordingly, there will be no changes to existing methodology for this index family."
This means that the earliest @SpaceX could be eligible to be added to the S&P 500 would now be June 2027.
The requirements that will now remain in place are:
• No changes to S&P 500 eligibility rules for mega-cap companies.
• Mega-cap companies will still need to wait 12 months after their IPO before being considered for S&P 500 inclusion.
• S&P will not waive profitability requirements for mega-cap companies. The company must have positive GAAP net income in the most recent quarter, and the sum of the most recent four consecutive quarters.
• S&P will not waive minimum public float requirements for mega-cap companies. At least 10% of a company's shares must be publicly tradable ("free float").
The S&P rejected proposals that would have:
• Reduced the IPO seasoning period from 12 months to 6 months
• Waived profitability requirements
• Waived minimum public float requirements
World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."
"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."
"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."
"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."
Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc
FSD is absolutely jaw-dropping.
You’ve never seen anything like this.
It reversed for a full 7 minutes… right on the edge of a cliff.
Credit: Douyin AE68 & 卢23
Source video: https://t.co/YRFDJuGpvV
When you go buy a Dell laptop bundle only to find out that the CPU is Intel, the RAM is Micron, the GPU is AMD, the internal Hard Drive is Seagate, the external Hard Drive is Western Digital, and they toss in a bonus SD Card that is SanDisk.
It all makes sense now...
It all makes sense.