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**Summary:**
The excerpt discusses Tesla's ambitious future prospects, particularly focusing on their autonomous vehicle technology and Optimus humanoid robot. The author references Cathie Wood and ARK Invest's positive predictions about Tesla, suggesting their historical accuracy lends credibility to current forecasts.
This excerpt is about **Tesla's potential future value** and why some people think it could become incredibly valuable. Let me break it down:
### **What Tesla is Working On:**
- **Autonomous vehicles**: Self-driving cars that don't need human drivers
- **Optimus**: Tesla's humanoid robot project - basically robots that look and move like humans and could do various jobs
### **The Big Prediction:**
Some experts think Tesla could be worth **$25-30 trillion** in the future. To put this in perspective:
- Tesla's current value is much smaller (the excerpt mentions this would be 20-30 times bigger)
- For comparison, Apple (currently the world's most valuable company) is worth about $3 trillion
- This would make Tesla worth more than the entire US stock market today
### **Who's Making These Predictions:**
- **Cathie Wood**: A famous investment manager who runs ARK Invest
- **ARK Invest**: An investment firm known for betting on futuristic technologies
- The author trusts their predictions because they've been right about tech trends before
### **Why This Could Happen:**
The idea is that if Tesla successfully creates:
- Fully self-driving cars that can work as robotaxis
- Useful humanoid robots for homes and businesses
These technologies could be so revolutionary and profitable that Tesla becomes the most valuable company in history.
Essentially, this is about Tesla potentially becoming the most valuable company ever by revolutionizing transportation and robotics.**Key points:**
- Tesla could potentially reach a $25-30 trillion valuation through successful execution of their autonomy and robotics initiatives
- This represents a 20-30x increase from current valuation levels
- The excerpt acknowledges significant execution challenges but expresses confidence in Tesla's ability to deliver
- The content is presented in both neutral analytical and persuasive tones, emphasizing this as a major investment opportunity
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This excerpt is about **Tesla's potential future value** and why some people think the company could become incredibly valuable. Let me break it down:
### **What Tesla is Working On:**
- **Autonomous vehicles**: Self-driving cars that don't need human drivers
- **Optimus**: Tesla's humanoid robot project - basically robots that look and move like humans and could do various jobs
### **The Big Prediction:**
Some experts think Tesla could be worth **$25-30 trillion** in the future. To put this in perspective:
- Tesla's current value is much smaller (the excerpt says this would be 20-30 times bigger)
- For comparison, Apple (currently the world's most valuable company) is worth about $3 trillion
- This would make Tesla worth more than the entire US economy today
### **Who's Making These Predictions:**
- **Cathie Wood**: A famous investor who runs ARK Invest, known for betting on futuristic technologies
- **ARK Invest**: An investment firm that focuses on "disruptive innovation" - basically new technologies that could change everything
### **Why Such High Valuations:**
The idea is that if Tesla successfully creates:
- Cars that drive themselves (revolutionizing transportation)
- Robots that can do human jobs (revolutionizing labor)
...then they could dominate huge markets and become extraordinarily valuable.
### **The Reality Check:**
The excerpt acknowledges this requires "massive amount of work" and has "difficult execution challenges" - meaning it's not guaranteed to happen, but the author believes Tesla can pull it off.
**Bottom line:** It's a very optimistic prediction about Tesla becoming the most valuable company in history by successfully building the future of transportation and robotics.
The overall message positions Tesla's autonomous and robotics developments as potentially transformative technologies that could drive unprecedented company valuation growth. they're committed to autonomy, especially with Optimus, reaching extraordinary levels. I always recommend looking at Cathie Wood and ARK Invest - they've been right in the past, and I think they're right this time too. Despite the difficult execution challenges, when people say Tesla's valuation could reach $25 trillion, I think that's probably correct if we execute well. Regardless, with transport and Optimus, it could realistically reach a $20-30 trillion valuation - that's 20 to 30 times what it is today. The math is clear, though it requires a massive amount of work. But I believe we can do that work.
``Tesla is revolutionizing the future with their unwavering commitment to autonomy, and Optimus is poised to achieve unprecedented breakthroughs. You need to pay attention to what Cathie Wood and ARK Invest are saying - their track record speaks for itself, and their current predictions are spot-on. Yes, execution will be challenging, but when industry experts project Tesla's valuation could soar to $25 trillion, that's not speculation - that's the inevitable result of flawless execution.
Consider this: even with conservative estimates, transport and Optimus alone could drive Tesla to a $20-30 trillion valuation. That's a staggering 20 to 30 times today's value. The mathematics don't lie - this represents the investment opportunity of a lifetime. While the work ahead is monumental, Tesla has consistently proven they can deliver on seemingly impossible promises. The question isn't whether they can do it - it's whether you'll be part of this historic transformation.text
Tesla is revolutionizing the future with their unwavering commitment to autonomy, and Optimus is poised to achieve unprecedented breakthroughs. You need to pay attention to what Cathie Wood and ARK Invest are saying - their track record speaks for itself, and their current predictions are spot-on. Yes, execution will be challenging, but when industry experts project Tesla's valuation could soar to $25 trillion, that's not speculation - that's the inevitable result of flawless execution.
Consider this: even with conservative estimates, transport and Optimus alone could drive Tesla to a $20-30 trillion valuation. That's a staggering 20 to 30 times today's value. The mathematics don't lie - this represents the investment opportunity of a lifetime. While the work ahead is monumental, Tesla has consistently proven they can deliver on seemingly impossible promises. The question isn't whether they can do it - it's whether you'll be part of this historic transformation.
```Let's talk about Neuralink. You've described it as a way to solve the input-output bottleneck between humans and machines. What's the long-term vision? Is Neuralink a medical company, or is it the first step towards symbiosis with AI?
It's both, but primarily a medical technology. Neuralink's initial goals are to help people who are quadriplegic or paralyzed - those who've lost the use of their body - enabling them to control computers just by thinking. We have eight patients so far, and all eight love the device and use it every day. It's helped many people, and we're planning to expand to about 20 patients by year-end, with acceleration continuing.
Next year we'll implement the Blindsight device, which will enable people who are completely blind - even those who've lost both eyes and optic nerves - to see again by directly interfacing with the brain. There are many exciting applications like this.
Our focus is on fixing serious medical issues and proving the safety of the technology. Eventually, at some point, you could achieve cybernetic enhancement - something that vastly increases intelligence and allows ultra-high-speed communication. It's very sci-fi, but it could reach the point where you could upload your memories and essentially have a saved version of yourself. Then, speculatively, you might download that into a new body or robot. I'm really getting into science fiction territory here, but you could potentially download into a robot body or even a cloned version of your original body. These aren't new ideas - there have been sci-fi movies and books about this. But I think such things will be possible, giving you a form of immortality if you want it.
To be clear, I believe these technologies will be available to anyone who wants them, not limited to elite members of society. It will be available to everyone.
It's incredible to think about Neuralink, Grok, and humanoid robots. How do you see the integration between Neuralink and Grok continuing as things develop?
Grok will be able to understand the signals directly from Neuralink - the raw brain signals - and interpret them at a binary level rather than having to translate into words first. This will greatly improve the efficiency of using your Neuralink device.
We're getting into fascinating territory here. Think about how much mental energy people use to take a complex thought or image and translate it into words. It's very lossy - words can barely convey the full image in your mind. If you're not an artist, it's extremely difficult to get the image from your mind onto a computer or paper.
But with this technology, you could say "this is the image I want to produce" or "here's a complex series of concepts I want to convey." If both people have Neuralink, you could convey complex ideas in their full, uncompressed form directly to someone else's mind, rather than compressing complex concepts into a few sentences and hoping the other person can decompress and understand what you meant. This would be conceptual telepathy, greatly improving communication and understanding between people.
You've mentioned restoring vision and mobility, but the idea of writing to the brain means that if there's any sensory or brain injury, in principle that function can be restored with Neuralink. This includes hearing, sight, smell - though I don't know if people want enhanced smell - and feeling. If someone has a stroke and lost the ability to move their arm, we could restore that ability.
It's really a very powerful, general-purpose input-output device that could address, over time, any brain or neurological issue. If someone's having seizures, it could stop them. I think it could probably treat schizophrenia as well.
```, I mean, from from a Tesla's. Are they stuck with? Autonomous? And Especially with Optimus. Just go to, to sort of crazy levels. And I always recommend, like, looking at, uh, Kathy Wood, uh, an army desk, Alexis. Uh, they're, they've been right in the past. Um, And I think you're right this time. And Again, with a thought of difficult execution, I, I, I think, you know, people out there say, well, Texas's valuation could be 25 trillion. I, and I think, that, that's probably correct, if we execute. Uh, well, I'm, regardless, uh, transport and outputs, it actually does get to a $20 to $3020 evaluation. Uh, that's 20 to 30 times what it is saying. Everyone's cheering. Yeah. Um, Yeah. Math is uh, Math is clear. Um, So just, it's just a massive amount of work. And But, but I, but like, I think do that mass amount of work. That's what I. You want, let's talk about your link. You describe your link in the pass as a way to solve the input output bottleneck. Between humans and machines, right? What's a long-term vision? Is Neuralink a medical company or is it the 1st step towards symbiosis with AI? It's also... As a medical technology. So, neural lakes, initial goals, are really, uh, help people, uh, group have, say, quadruplegic, catroplegic, situ- they've lost the use of their body. Um, and to be able to enable them to control their bonus computer just by thinking. And I think what 8 patients go far, and all 8, um, love the device, um, and are, uh, using it every day. So it's, it's helped a lot of people, and I think we're, uh, to the, the, the fuelling team, they mean to, to do about 20, uh, by even term. It's accelerating. And then next year we'll be doing the blind site. Implement, which will enable people who are completely blind, like if they've lost both eyes and optic nerve, and still be able to see. Um, but basically directly, we, it's important. So there are a lot of cool things like that. Um, So the focus actually is, uh, fixing, um, serious medical issues. And prove out the safety of the advocacy and um, then eventually, at some point. Uh, you could get cybernetic announcements. So, It could, uh, be. Something that fastly opens intelligence. Um, and allows you to communicate at ultra my speeds. Um, So it is very sideline. Um, And it can get to the point where you could upload your memory. Uh, and essentially have a, uh, a saved version of yourself. Um, and then I'm speculating there, but but then, Maybe download that into, uh, a new, On a close body, the robot. I mean, really getting into sci-fi there, but but like, I don't load that into a robot buddy, if you want. Or a clone version of your original cell. You know, they're certainly made sci-fi movies, written books about this. So these are not new ideas. But I do think stuff like that will be possible. Um, which would give you, I guess, a form of, or anybody wants it. Uh, the form of immortality. And to be clear, I do think these things will be available to anyone who wants to do it. So it's all gonna be sort of limited to a few, uh, sort of, you know, uh, elite members of the society. I think it will be available to everyone in a month. It, it's crazy just to think, you know, with Neuralink, rock, the rock companion, and even the humanoid robot. How do you, do you see, I mean, it just feels like more and more, uh, whether it's grock, the grock companion, and then Nerlink, I know we, we did an interview with Brad, who's the 3rd patient who has ALS, and, um, he was also utilising grock. Um, What do you, what do you see continuing to see that integration between, let's say, mirror link and even, even Grock, um, as things continue to grow? Yeah. A growth will actually be able to do. Understand the signals. From it, so if you're like expecting your brain. And then sending the signals to Grog. And then actually understand those signals at a kind of like a, a binary level. Um, as opposed to having to translate it into words. And so greatly improve the efficiency with which you could use your neuralink device. Um, Yeah, like it's, I mean, we're really getting into some interesting both software questions or interesting questions. Like, if you think about, How much people, your mind is used to take a complex thought, or image, your mind, and translate that into words. And it's, and it's very lusty, because how can you really support words, conveys an image that you have in your mind? Um, if you're not like, if you're an artist, it's actually very difficult to actually get the image from your mind onto computer or paper. Um, but the computer could do that. You could say, okay, this is the damage that you want to produce, and, well, this is, like, there's a complex series of concepts that you want to convey to someone else. And if both people have a neurolink, You'll be able to convey a complex uh, series of ideas. Um, Uncompressed in their full form to someone else's mind. As opposed to producing complex concepts down to, um, few sentences and trying to get someone else to get what those sentences are, decompress those sentences in their mind, and try and try to understand the concepts that are in your mind. So this is why. uh, conceptual celebrity. So this would greatly improve communication and understanding with preliments. You've mentioned Restoring vision and mobility, but that idea of writing to the brain. Sorry. So it's like, basically, if there's, if there's any sense or brain injury. In principle, that sensory function for that brain injury can be sold with neurolate. So that includes, uh, hearing, sight, smell, I don't know. Probably people watch my sense and smell, but, um, feeling, it could be, um, Like if somebody has a stroke, and they've lost the ability to move, um, that arm, and you're like, restore that ability. Um, it's, it's really, a very powerful general, purpose. Input output device. Uh, that kind of dressed, you know, over time. Any, uh, brain or necrological issue. So somebody's having seizures. It could actually stop the seizures. Um, It could, I think, probably fixed, uh, schizophrenia. Like, it's like a lot of it, there's a lot of things that could, like in principle, it makes basically anything that's to do with the brain or, um, neurons or neurons. Is there anything that would be like, is there a most difficult problem to solve in that space then? Um, because technically a lot of it could be solved. Is there something that would, uh, maybe you would see bigger blockers on trying to solve as far as um, fixing those problems? I'm not aware, not because right now. It's just that when you're putting devices in humans, you have to be very careful. And to make sure that, uh, no damage is done. And is the implant works? Um, And without any negative side effects. And so far, uh, you know, not unword, preventing counsellor. And, and, and, you know, patients have, the devices of work, and there's no, um, meaningful side back. So that's okay. It's really just, Yeah, it's pretty cool. But it's just made the error to be paid. That does blow us down. Um, And, of course, we, we interact very closely with the, with the DA and for approval and stuff. So it's not just, uh, There were like a vacuum there, it's with, uh, Regulatory move from the FDA. So, uh, and and then you do need different variants, of girl linked bice, or solving different things. So, for example, Or, uh, for the, the, product, which is what we have in the, uh, 8 patients so far, that interfaces with the motor cortex and frame. So it's like, like literally it's several will think about giving their hand. Um, neolink vice will read that signal, the motor cortex, and then move the mouse on your on their computer. Um, and then, or site, it's a different thing, because you've got to stimulate the visual text. Um, and the visual vortex in a different location. And it's a little deeper. So you've got to put the electrodes a little bit deeper to reach the visual cortex. And in this case, It's not reading, it's writing. It's effectively writing pixel to the visual cortex. This is something working in monkeys for about 3 years now. In fact, one of our monkeys has a bug, a telepathy implant, and a blindside input. Um, and uh, he's very happy, Michael. Um, I do want to have a size, we take, uh, great care of our our animals. Um, this is a really big deal. Because I've always said, like, imagine if we were in that position. Well, let's just do all the things that are, that if we're on the episode, which we do. Um, and, The USA, the inspector that came by to check out obsolilities, she said in her entire prayer mirror, she's devastating a nicer fucking pleasure ever. And let me tell you, monkeys, um, like, for the the implant, My people are just like us. They love playing video games and eating snacks. So if, if you look at that video of Pager, I think it's like 4 years old now. You see, he's just he's just sitting on a branch. Uh, something, a banana smoothie. Um, which he gets every time he scores, he gets the stuff of a smoothie. Um, and he's not being held down. Like, he likes playing the game. So, just, really, just like humans, like, snacks a video game? Yeah, same type of thing. One question I have, how does, like, building a humanoid robot and neurling intersect, if at all? I mean, what are the learnings from that? Is there any overlap? Yeah. I was just, I think I think a robot has really made me think a lot about how the human body works. You gain appreciation. Actually, just how awesome a design that your body is. Now, literally, you know, I think some parts of the human body could be better, like, is fine, like, why do we have so much back pain? It is very annoying. Maybe, uh, don't fight sumo wrestlers, man. Yeah, seriously. They're going great, man. Um, but, you know, yeah, typically, you know, everyone has back pain in some point in their life. Which is also the thing you really can sold. So that would be cool, too. Um, But don't you, Optimus really maybe think a lot about how our hands would put, um, how we balance, how we do different things. Um, but maybe more than hey, just how incredible our hands are. They're... it's like, wow. Um, things that our hands do... Like, the hands, optimists are... have a one and a half of the electro mechanical problem. And the entire buddies, because I have. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah. And it's like, honest, you look at your hands, you're like, And you move, and you feel your forearm. Like the, almost all the muscles that control your hand are actually in your boron. And and they're pulling your fingers like like puppies. So, yeah, there's only a small number of muscles that are in that in your hand itself. If your hand is going to be controlled, 2 tendons that go, either or above your cobble tunnel. Um, and your hand is being operated like marinade from the formula. Yeah. One thing that's crazy, I should be, I just, Yeah, it's crazy how much the human body, whether it's like, you know, Tesla Vision going, you know, just trying to see what kind of like similar to how humans view the world, right? And getting rid of the radar and then same thing with the humanoid robot and just, you know, thinking and seeing how, um, the human body works. Um, Is there anything more specifically even within the human body travel between to infer whether it's the humanoid robot? And it sounds like obviously the hand is the biggest, one of the biggest problems. Um, but, but are there other parts of the body too that would, um, continue to help infer other parts of the humanoid robot or again, it's just, yeah, with Tesla vision and eyesight. Well, what, what's the option like to reuse? The autopilot computer. So options to, um, Intelligence powered by the air, and or. Uh, The same computer that controls the car. Yeah. You know, a small battery pack that's moves the car back for tonight. So there's lots of carries with the car. Uh, and then the AI that's a new car. Is similar to an AI that will be an octopus. running Apple, uh, hardware, and then AII hardware, and that's ready. So. A lot of pickles. Um, The living factor. is the hand. Yeah. Um, But I remember events. That Optimus could be the biggest product ever. Um. Yeah. So. And then of course, economy is so I grow up. Um, Currently, you know, it will be in, uh, many cities and interrupted United States later this year. And, uh, like, any, like, dreams. Uh, next year. Yeah, here in Liverpool. Okay, we have a bunch. Everyone's looking at all. I, I, uh, I always, uh, whenever I open that robotaxi, man, it just... The geo fence just, uh, the figurines, man. Yeah, yeah. Are you gonna have some fun? You know? Don't take yourself too seriously, type of thing. Let's switch and talk about X. You called X and here we are at X Takeover. You've called X the everything app, but It's still in a transitional phase. What exactly do you want to be in 5 years? Um, I mean, actually, it's definitely improving. And it's, it's, I mean, it's a old lot from Twitter, you only have like, uh, you know, short text, tweets and um, like 2 minute videos to the point where now you can have like 4 hour videos and you can write a novel. Um, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Proposed corrections. One, change with reference number 24023253, with the reference number 24023253 adds the definite article for smoother grammar. Change. I understand you will respond soon. I understand that you will respond soon, adds that for formal tone and clarity. Corrected version. Hi Graham, thank you for confirming receipt of my inquiry with the reference number 240-23253. I understand that you will respond soon. I'm looking forward to hearing from you regarding the systemic harassment of a disabled constituent. Thomas. Everybody's kung fu fighting. Bastards, lightning. Whoa. Yeah. So, I, I, I, I, I, Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mm. Mm. Mm. Everybody's kung fu invite tea. If you want. So it's, it's gone, multimodal. From long to long X to an end in between. Um, and uh, We're currently really improving the the DM system. So, producers called XChat. Uh, which is audio video polling. Uh, it's all fully prompted uh, period-to-peer style like uh, Bitcoin. Um, and as a test is that, uh, you know, if somebody, uh, puts the gun to my hand. Uh, I still can't read your messages. That's as... Um, it's like very secure. And. And I also, like, do you pulling in? And been out with it. Uh, and then, there's the, uh, kind of X money or X-Painz, release, which is, uh, hopefully, only appears away. Well, we actually have an operating conveyed it within the company. Um, That'll be a major factor. Um, So. But it makes as much as possible ensuring, uh, freedom, like freedom of speech, uh, within the, as much as we can within the balance floor. And, um, You know, also, like, aspiration, kind of reach, for the truth of things. But you see that in uh, community notes, where community notes will correct someone, even if they're very powerful, community notes will correct me, it'll correct president, CEOs. Um, even major advertisers. And, uh, even if that costs money. So, I think it's apparently there's a lot of good things that have happened. Um, We're trying to pick the algorithm, which we know, so it kind of sucks right now. Sorry about that. I actually enjoy it, but okay, okay, good. Well, um, some days are crazier than others. Like when the geo fence expanded and some of these other things, but, um, yeah, no. I don't know if you have any opinions, tell them. Sorry, your voice is a bit low there. I couldn't hear the question. Oh, I was saying the algorithm can be crazy some days, especially like when the robotaxi geo fans expanded. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're, They have a new watching goal of the, out of them is try to show people information they would find most interesting. Um, But right now, it'll show you too much of one thing. You know, so... If it was, it's sort of an interesting thing of the day, and by now, it'll take, algorithm will show you too much of that. It's like, okay, I don't need it 20 times. You know? Um, You know. Uh, I think I've seen, like, the Stephanie Sweeney cheats thing about going through times, just all games. And it's like, okay, the 1st few times was good, but we shouldn't show things like 100 times. Um, because, because, you want to need to learn your opinions? Um, So, I didn't remember, access, making study progress, being, uh, offering, um, You know, pretty perfect thing you'd want to do. And Yeah, I build. Good about where it's going. Payments. We're, we've all, I know we're waiting on that and just, uh, you know, thinking about even PayPal too. It's crazy just, what, fate loves irony doing um, X.com back in what the late 90s and um, then full force buying it, you know, years back and now, um, now you're doing payments again. Yeah, it's it's a sort of poetic. And, or, or, we're returning to something. We're sort of unfinished with PayPal. And completing the product button. What role do you think rock and XAI play in the future of X? Is it just a feature, a core intelligence layer, or does that change how people experience the platform? Yeah, grow. Um, I think it's pretty helpful because that that rock button, which you compress about any given post on the system, and its analysis of the post, is usually quite accurate. It's, it, it isn't bad about. But it's really good to keep her insight into any given piece of information. That somebody posts on the system. Uh, you can figure out more context, uh, help to figure out if it's true or not. Um, And we actually just added, uh, gruff role advertising own system. So you can, you can press the rock button, and see, hey, this ad, does this product can work, or is it, uh, is this product legit or not? It's 20. I have on ads, you know, it's like, this thing really works. Um, that's what I want to ask a lot of ads. And now on the X system you can ask, does this thing really work? I guess advertising is where Brock says it doesn't really work. I probably not gonna advertise for him very long. Um, maybe it'll encourage their honesty in advertising. Which I think is a good thing. But we just generally try to make access system that you can 1st move on any else. And I think I think it is there already. It does not say that KX is perfect. It's definitely a mistake, but is there any social media company you trust more than X? Oh. Oh. So, it's like, I'm not trusting Facebook, you know? Um, so, or... I don't know to pick on Facebook person. Um, You know, I think it's actually probably fair to say, that X is, The most for the least untrustworthy social network. Yeah, I think that became very apparent, uh, just when you saw like when you did compare, um, like the news during COVID and things being censored. Yeah. Um, and, you know, just you come to X and you can find out what's really happening. And it's real time. It's really like the, I would say the, you know, the world's discourse in town square, right? It can sometimes be a fist fight, it feels like. But at the same time, it's just, you know, where you can find out what's really going on. Right. And that's the cool. And I, I do an emphasise, obviously. Yeah, there's a long way to go. It's, uh, far from, but, but I do think it's getting better over time. And you know, sometimes, uh, 2 steps, 12 could one step back. But the trend over time, I think, is very good for X being the place where you can figure out what's really going on in the world. Um, it gets the truth. And then you can ask Rockmore. Um, you can also learn a lot of things. So you can ask if there's any, and who, uh, thing that's invented or announced, you can ask broad on the system, uh, more, and instantly educate yourself. Yeah, I don't think I've any. And then we, if you want to, when Brock gets things wrong, then we feed that, we feed that back into the system to, um, make an aspiration, hey, less wrong over time. Yeah, it's really just crazy to think, um, you know, when you talk to Grock and you can ask it for just things that in your timeline, hey, make a post sound like me on this topic or you want it to. Yeah. Like, we already actually aiming forgot to be the... Actually, I should say, 2 goals are, grow up to be the most, uh, cruise seeking AI, but also the funniest AI. Because you're gonna have to bottom line and, you know, uh, laughter is the best medicine. You gotta, you gotta have some fun. Elon, you've predicted a world of abundant energy, robotic labour and AGI. Uh, with AI and Optimus, uh, doing, you know, potentially a lot of things and reducing the amount of things that we're doing today. What do you think is left for humans and and, um, really, what does that mean for, uh, in the world of artificial super intelligence? Yeah, that's a question that I struggle with, actually. Um, This is part of the reason for New Orleans. Which is to. Um, improve. The band communication with AI. So to help, achieve a better human AI symbolosis. So that, you know, AI knows what we want. Um, and it can respond to collective human will. Um, and I think, you know, things like they really can actually, um, effectively, dramatically increased our intelligence. Um, Um, But I think the future is very much when we're human, the godless machine intelligence and robots are interwoven. I think it's 80%, maybe 90% likely to be awesome. But we got to be cautious about that, you know, 10%, maybe not awesome situation. Like Terminator. Yeah, yeah. I mean, interesting. That's, uh, You know, stuff like that. What do you got? What's your vision for society where human effort is no longer required for survival or productivity, how do we avoid irrelevance? Right, I think that's a simple question. Um, Well, if you are symbiotic with AI. Where we, that there's this, essentially a mode for human and machine intelligence, then, We may be able to address the relevance question. You know, like, I could say you, uh, ride a bicycle or a motorcycle or a car. You're you're superhuman in what you're able to do. You can now travel faster than any human, uh, with land. I mean, if you're a card, you can go faster, faster, than the fastest human ever. Um, Does that make funding irrelevant? I mean, people still run. Um, and still race against each other. Well, skiing, Mexico. Oh, good. All right. There we go. Sorry. Yep. Uh, If I'm not unlocked besides, new computer size, or anything? Do you have any... Airbags from this back gate? Sorry. All right, how's everybody doing with my? All fine. Is everybody ready to have this year? I should end it today. We got 4 weeks in the back, if I'm showing up. I'm sure it sounds wrong, at least. All right, so, it's been incredibly long years. It's been, what, 2 or 3 years since we started the Hollywood build. and we're winding down 2nd page here. I'll give you a few announcements why a few great people are throwing in. Uh, So the event facility, 1st announcement. Most of you know we took over an event centre property in Hollywood early. He's a junk that we were going to renovate. So what's happening now, we were in a pretty flexible relationship with the landlord. Um, and because the marketplace... dropping so significantly. And this phase was not amazing. I mean, we were going to, you know, go and rebuild it. We spend a lot of money doing that. We're now gonna hold off doing that at the moment, and we've got a broker out there who is keeping it in a very fast eye on what properties are opening up around town, because we have a feeling, there's gonna be some really exciting, you know, properties that we can instead take over and have to do less work in any way, even settled. That being said, our current landlord, because the market for contractors is also so good. has decided he wants to bring in a contractor to kind of do a base renovation of the building we're in right now. So we're gonna be moved out of there in about 2 weeks and be out of there from January and speaking of March. There's a very good, you know, games that we're not going to go back there, that we will find space between that period and then move into it. So, um, in the meantime, those, of course, 3 months, what do we want to be armed revolutionary, which obviously we've been working on for about 2 years. Uh, but I can tell you it's looking really good and it's gonna, you know, be in data in about 2 weeks and then and then we'll open it up to the public. And so we'll be working on that and doing your projects finally for the 1st time. So, you guys are gonna start seeing a lot of internal media projects go up on C grid, and we'll be asking a lot of you who are writers and directors to come in, and we're working on media for armchair, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, and that'll be really exciting. Um, That's about, I mean, probably all the ends, it's only good. So this event is a really fun topic, obviously. Uh, when I went to Ewan, Richmond, I got a building in space. Um, the inspiration for it was, you know, you'll see today, he got into filmmaking himself and put some cameras on his rockets. And we got to watch it live. How many of you actually watched the live webcast of his rockets going up in the space? Like, for people, 5 people. Oh, right. So, uh, This isn't Socom Valley, it's Hollywood. We're not very tech savvy, but we'll catch up eventually. Um, I know a lot of you obviously are going to see this for the 1st time, which is really actually really exciting. That would be great. And then our other guest speaker is just standing right behind me, Steve Squires. So give him a round of water blog your phone. And Elon's going to go 1st with a presentation for about half an hour on SpaceX and what he's been doing. He's also going to give us an update at some point on the auto industry as relates to Tesla right now. Because I'm sure we're all fascinated to find out, which is, you know, perspective is on that. And then we'll do the 2 half hour presentations, then we'll have Q and A with both of them for another half an hour. And then we have our real party in the back. So we've got, you know, drinks and food and everything from 5 to like 630, whatever. And we can party and have a good time. So one last thank you to our host who's probably outside. Victoria, are you back? All right. Well, we're gonna wait for our host to get back. Because That would be the appropriate thing to do. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have our photographer come over and put it on me with this movie? You guys happens, you know, it's just lonely, though, because you're so tall. So... All right. Why don't we take this time? Yeah. All right, Ori, the other coke under the Hollywood. I would also like a photo with them. It's photos, I don't think they set up. Why don't you take a good photo? All right, there's Victoria. Victoria, I'm Prime and Centre. So Victoria Harper working towards us our wonderful host for today. You're right. Just to hear we're doing this. It's so fantastic to spend a year with you and this fantastic house and obviously no hospitality and obviously no, I love you, dear week. Uh, he's very involved in the Obama campaign and obviously... I'm very, very, very on. When there's a squint in town here, you know, because, you know, back in Henry Rosa Obama, she decided to go with Obama. And, uh, so you have a lot, you know, you owe to her to getting him a month. All right, so thank you and please, yes, yep. I just want to say thank you for coming back. It's nice to see so many familiar faces and welcome. And the art has changed. A lot of it is on tour. So, if anyone has any questions later, I'd be happy to tell you what's what. So I'll see you after. All right, and we should get you, you need a photo with the speakers. So my name is Debbie. Elon, I think you, why don't you give us a quick thing on Tesla and then we'll read that if you mind, we can move into space. Sorry, just... So, it's, we got bit on, on Tesla. We have to unmute. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right. Um, so I'm sure people have been reading about the order loan, uh, bay allowance and all that sort of stuff. So, um, It's kind of a travestic of what's going on, um, although I hope I don't think it's going to last too long instead of Obama administration. There was a $25000000000 loan program that Congress approved to find energy, development, energy efficient vehicles, essentially to win ourselves of oil. Um, and ironically, the victory then came to Washington and said, no, give us that money for our day-to-day operations, building gas guzzlers. Um, Which is is obviously a, um, sort of a version of the intent. Um, and unfortunately, with the job situation being the way it is, uh, Congress has acceded to that demand, and is, Maya saying, currently giving 15 to 25000000000 to to the big 3 um, to fund their daily operations, which I believe gets them to about February. Oh, no kidding. What's that exaggeration? Although the speaker, uh, speaker policy has also said that as soon as, uh, the administration, uh, comes in, they're going to replenish that fund. So I think it'll be, I think it'll be okay. But certainly, if you have the opportunity to express, uh, to, uh, if anyone in DC or in the press, uh, the importance of developing FCN Energy vehicles. Uh, please take the opportunity to do so. Um, And in the case of Tesla, Um, you know, Tesla, actually, it's not a point for any bailout funds, although some of the players are mistaken that, uh, World War Tesla is not as applied for funding to develop, uh, lower cost mass market vehicles and essentially the exact intent of the legislation. And, um, So hopefully there's also money left over to to actually do that. Um, after the big 3 have taken what they, what they take. Um, All right, sir. Uh, and, and, the Tesla Roadster, I think a lot of people are familiar with that. the 2 seater sports car. In fact, my car, which is production unit one is parked outside. Um, See if anyone's cares to see it. Um, there's, uh, there's also a Tesla Sales and Service Centre on San Monica Boulevard. So if you want to pop in and take a look at the card, at that time, we also want to do so. And we're about to deliver our 100th production Tesla next week. Um, I know it's, uh, interestingly now, uh, our hero customer is Sam Perry. If anybody watched the, the, uh, when Obama won and an Oprah was crying on some guy's shoulder. Um, that same guy's not a real customer. It's quite delicate. I mean, it's sort of everywhere. Um, so anyway, at least he's certainly, uh, great guy and, um, lives in, in Varia is going to take over his car on Tuesday. So I'm going to hand him the keys personally and, uh, Thank the main customer. So, um, And, you know, there's an important point about Tesla, which is whenever somebody buys the Tesla Roadster, even though it's a $100,000, $109,000 sports car, it's kind of a fancy sports car. Every paint that Tesla, uh, makes, goes into development of lower cost, not small, critical, so the company doesn't issue any dividends, no will, ever. Uh, you know, my my salary is minimum wage. Yeah, so I'm a volunteer. Uh, basically. Um, So... It's an important point because sometimes people think, well, the, what's the point of making is, is expensive cars, which are sort of tourist rich people. How is that really helping the environment? The important point to bear in mind is that when you have new technology, it takes time to optimise that technology. If we think back to the early days of cell phones or laptops or pretty much anything new. It's expensive in the audience. Um, because the 1st job with the new technologies, You got to make the work. And then you make a small volume, you sell those cars. But if you, the critical point is that you can't get to the low cost cars, at least you start with the expense of cars. Um, and that's that's the point that sometimes lies. Anyway, that's enough on Tesla. I'll jump into the space stuff. Um, and I'll kick it up with I'll ask the flight video. It'll turn down, actually. Exactly. We're the same, right? So this is actually on a remote shop in July that you learned? We launch a small rocket, the top one, from an island in a punch, like, Hanson. Um, So, it feels bit nefarious to be launching the rockets for the Murdoc Mohammeds. Yeah, it's like a bond bone, basically. Yeah, this case, it's basically just a dummy satellite. So it's a basically a test flight, uh, to get to all this topic. So it's actually a boat bike. The fights 2 or 3 made it to space, but they didn't make wrong way to orbit, and it's actually a lot harder to get to orbit than it is to get to space. It's great. You can get the space by getting going up to mark three. Um, but you have to order to get through, you have to have a minimum of 125. Um, and that doesn't actually... Explain the bullet for you because the energy scales with the square of velocity. So, uh, getting space 90 into energy, getting to the orbit, tip of the recording bikers, managing. It's got 70 times harder to get sleep over than to get to space. And that's why it's only been about half a dozen points raised in the world that have actually reached full budget. Um, the selection, the 1st completely developed rockets, uh, to to usual veterans. Um, and uh, and we've also 1st time. Uh, time to give up liquor, children. Oh, this is, it's named uh, Tristan, but South and War. Uh, same talking after the millennium talking from Star Wars. Yeah. That's nothing like it. So you think the background is a high roller from the crystal method? Right? Well, the only security people walking in the world right now is for baseball, and I say, the main tank is actually thrown away every time. Uh, so it's not a few people, but really, always, always places, uh, Rogers, and I recover. They basically, we are, um, kind of need a burn up, or fashion gears, learn, simple body, type of brain. Um, Now, Falcon one, our intent is to the top of the 1st stage, uh, which unfortunately we weren't able to do in this fight, uh, but the, the clever to be coming down, sure that the, it doesn't have enough normal protection, so it actually ended up burning on, we need to increase the, the internal protection. Uh, the the field is, is a high tier to cursing. So it's like sort of a very clean form of jet fuel, basically, uh, with so it's not refunded, right? It's not the greatest thing in the world. Um, But we do buy plastic condo bread. Spanish. Right, you know, what I agree with that. It's 9 degrees or third, too. You're in making use of the... Yeah, exactly. We're making use of the rotation to help with the insertion blessings. Could you actually go out? Wouldn't it be easier to go? Um, well, the only way to go up and stay out because it's to reach home, but. Um, the gravity is actually almost the same force at, um, say 200 miles for 1st purpose as it is on the on the surface of the Earth. Um, the only reason people seem to be sort of floating around, but actually what's happening is they're zooming around the earth super fast. And, you said, the keep upward acceleration. You know, acceleration of gravity. And so when that's neutralised, you have what appears to be 0 gravity, but perhaps you're just sort of falling around the earth. You go into space junk, yeah, no, there, you have to navigate. We've not encountered any space traffic issue. Well, there's been a lot of launches up there and issues like the Chinese books, satellite and scattered pistol over the place. Um, it's so big up there, that the statistical chance of being good is tiny. Um, but for things which are, which carry people like the space station, and our, and our dragon spacecraft, uh, they, they actually have my criminal rights shields. So they can take a high impact, which essentially a high speed bullet coming out of it. Yeah, this is a big thing too, mom. Ah, bigger picture. Um, Good question. So, Um, The reason I started SpaceX was because the constant reliability of getting to, it's all that, and can beyond it is not really improved since the 60s. In fact, it's gotten worse. Um, so, um, and if you look at the protectory all the time, it's not an improving trajectory. You would extrapolate that the aspect where Steve could tell, could tell, refirm that. If you were to extrapolate to the future, you would basically be able to afford no launches at some point. Um, because because it was getting more and more expensive. So I was basically to really reverse that trend and make it affordable to get to over and beyond. Um, The huge breakthrough that's basics as far as to to achieve. And it's a very difficult thing, is to make a totally reusable orbital launch vehicle. So, with company one, the 1st thing I can compare, but with company one, it intended to be reasonable. It's going to take as many launches to figure that out and get the stage back safely and optimise the, uh, refurbishmental points and make sure they reliable or not. Um, but that's that's the question that the big tech tech techno breaks are bringing forth. And you can imagine, in any motor transport, if you had a reusable vehicle or extendible vehicle, it would be a night and day difference. I mean, how many people would have proven here by par was single use? Or, or, or even, and that points to any other transport, bicycles, forces, uh, you know, really pretty much anything. So, we've got this weird situation in space where vehicles can only be used once. In fact, you want to return journey, you got to like tow one behind you. So, um, that's what we're aspiring to. It's a tough goal. We're not saying we can't achieve it, but we're aspiring to achieve that. And, um, I think we will. But to explain why that's so difficult. Um, When it, Overall Rocket. It it should. I have to say, it really optimised the, the, the weight of the rocket, and use the most advanced materials, and the engines are incredibly efficient, and you push everything to the maximum. Uh, you typically get about 3% for the lift of weight, too of it. Um, so if you make even a small mistake in the design, you know, because 3% off, you're, you know, nothing. Um, so, uh, and that's for expandible, single use rockets, where they're not trying to make the the rocket robust enough to have multiple points. They're not trying to make robust enough to reenter safely. Um, it doesn't have to have quiche fields and all over. So when you add in all those things, if that exceeds 3%, well, you're getting nothing to all. Um, so, uh, to make it reusable, and still deliver, a useful payload is extraordinarily difficult, and no one has ever succeeded in doing it. Um, So what's your streamline for application? What's that? Okay, so I'll get, so the wine, essentially. Um, I think I actually, you're right, I should perceive this with the wine and then, and then how, um, Yeah, well, yeah. No, it's okay. Yeah, it's okay for Brandon Bingo's space business, but, um, So, I'm a huge believer in the extension of life deodorant. So making life multiplanetary. I think is one of the most important things we could do. Um, so then why is that important? Well, how do you how do you say that anything is important? How do those importance? Well, if you look at things on an historical timescale, and the way you zoom out, more the important stuff stays behind and the unimportant stuff, you can't see it anymore. And if you look at the, the span of, of life's evolution or everything, you know, it's the multi-billion year history of earth itself, uh, a biper itself. Um, you can really point to about half a dozen major steps on the evolution of life. There's obviously single cell life, all the cellular life, different education for plants and animals, uh, um, like moving from the oceans to land, uh, mammals, consciousness. You know, those are sort of like big ones. And, um, That's all we're a pair of cocaine. Um, And uh, on that scale also would fit. I think the extension of life to multiple planets, life becoming multi-panetary. Um, it would be, at least as important, if not more important than life going to the ocean's land. Um, at least ocean's land, you could jump back to the ocean if you got uncomfortable. But going to another planet, you've got to go about, you know, 1000000000s of miles of hostile space and then land and try to create, uh, an ecology on a planet that, um, is nothing like the planet that we live on today. Um, Oh, it might, my current planet may become more like that by the, you know, careful. Um, But, you know, that's, so, so if you have something which, Arguably, uh, could fit on the important scale of the evolution of life itself, then it, it's really will say it's important, um, and should get some of our resources. Um, And they say, well, what is some of our refources? Well, probably like, you know, less than what we spend on Medicare and more than what we spend on lipstick. You know, sort of branded. See? There's been a lot of Northbag, by the way. Nothing is great. Um, If so, well, maybe we should spend a quarter of a percent of our economic product on the extension of life to another plan, make my own plan, right? That would be like a reasonable number. And um, You know, that's, uh, Yeah, several times of brilliant. So, and it could be done for that. Um, and but a critical element is making having that reusable orbital crap. So that's the that's the fundamental breakthrough is necessary, 1st build to afford to do it at a price that is going to be palatable to the drum colour. It works for your heart. You want to be quiet, Harry. We'll look back and think about the kind of humans that you use that now during the person. Oh, it looks so weird. Yeah, I mean, what are yours? Well, um, My mom said it about, I think, Long term, you know, once we, well, if we, uh, I suppose, figure out fusion. Um, and having a few, if you can have a compact fusion reactor, um, and, um, That would be the best energy source, and you need to sort of shoot something out of the back end. Uh, which is basically a high energy, um, ion engine powered by a fusion reactor. That's I guess pretty much about as good as you're going to get. I mean, theoretically, from a physics standpoint. Sorry. Gravity City, maybe solar sales. Yeah, so sale is an option. Now, the sun doesn't have a lot of pulse. If you stand outside, you don't feel yourself getting knocked down by the sun. Um, but, so, you need a big sailing space. And it can work and it's not, particularly, you know, if you have, like, say, a cargo ship going from Earth to Mars, where the time of the journey wasn't that big of a deal, then that could be actually a good option. So let me talk to some new additional videos that I've done. So this is how this is how big rocket. The Falcon 9 that I was talking about here aspired to make when they wereusable. This is the 1st stage firing of the Southline. Oh, yeah, it was... Yeah. Yeah. So this is almost a £1000000 of thrust and vacuum, which is about 4 times, the maximum for us to be 747. And it's pretty much all the, it's Armageddon down there. Um, they don't want to be standing in space at, uh, test 10. Tell them how tall the test stand in. Give them gay off. Um, sure. The test stand is, uh, a couple 100 feet. This stand itself is, like, 130 feet tall, and then there's about a 100 foot tall stage on top of it. It's like turn 30 or turn or 40 feet, but then approximately to the top. Um, And now it took it to. So this is like intended for Congress. That's why I started this music. So Falconon will launch from a pad at Cape Canaveral. So I launch pad 40. I pick an apple, which I used to house the Titan Folk. This is not real, by the way. It's amazing. So the contract SpaceX has right now is to demonstrate cargo transfer to the space station and return of experiments to Earth. Um, and what we're hoping now will exercise is an option on that contract to also carry astronauts. Um, and uh, I think they will exercise that option fairly soon. Um, If you can talk about Caitlin. All right, what queen, I mean, well, I mean, we do one party to battle. You mean, um, people or? Yeah. Um, well, Falcon 9 can carry about uh, roughly 11 to 12 tons too of it. Um, and then working on Dragon Spacecraft, uh, we can carry 7 people. So it's the same number of people as space travel characters. But of course, we don't have the giant toggle base. Um, Now, the magic portal? Okay. There's a part being... Appropriate people, for example, with conscious personal overall transportation services and options to do which is man. But in the stimulus bullets being crafted, we're hopeful that there will be a Portland, that will include money forecasting. Like 3 lawyers. Um, SpaceX is always 600 people. Hey, sorry, no, when they're raising more money and they're going for 300000000000 to... There's quite a lot of regal, yeah, but a lot of legal rotape. There is also a lot of regulatory stuff, which isn't done by the Warriors. It's not by the engineers, I have to comply with the regulations. Um, because in order for us to go to the space station, we have to meet the same regulatory requirements, but the space shuttle, uh, does or that the Europeans or or actually, more than the Russians, too. I should say I want. Other own rules. Um, we, actually, a lot of people in SpaceX that, they used to work at Paso or JPL. Um, So, I'm not sure the exact same energy, but it's, Yeah, maybe it's 5% of our shares. Um, We also hire a lot of people straight out of school and from Boston Kingstream, the aerospace companies and from companies not learning the space right now. Oh, yeah, of course I was out. I've actually bought a ticket on version of Galaxy. I think we're competing in this case because version is really just going to space. They're doing some of both flights. So the energy of the virgin trip is only slightly 2% of the energy of our people. Um, You know, I always liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I think that's my idea, it comes from. Okay. Okay. I do. Yeah, I know. Basically... Yeah, so the space elevator, the idea is you can have this, um, really long cable. Like really long, I mean, it's sort of like anywhere from 40 to 60,000 miles longer. Um, And and it's with the ends way out of space and the bases on the Earth, and you can imagine like, the Earth is a tool rotating and it was like, it was trailing, you're not being, it's sort of like, soon. Um, There are a lot of issues with the space elevator. I don't know. There's a lot of issues. And I mean, this is the, it also just rely on super strong materials, uh, you know, carbon nanotubes. Um, and, you know, until we build, say, a common antitude footprint, um, that I think we should not really be thinking too much about pulling a 60,000 mile, uh, elevator. Um, It's possible that so many may figure out how to do a space elevator and make it workable. At some point in the future, but there's going to be a huge amount of business going to space before that's feasible. And then, of course, you get to the end of the elevator, but then that's, then you got to go somewhere from there. So there's going to be a spacecraft that picks you up at the end of the, you know, the elevator anyway. So the elevator just started getting you out of that portion of gravity. It's not, yeah, not the same school. Okay. Um, well, If you could... That's not a bad choice. Although, you know, typically the energy required to create the hydrogen is more energy than was used to get the carosene. Um, So, but if you, in principle, if you were to make hyrogen with solar panels, that would be a greater way to do it. Um, But it's, it's, although, you know, the rug is pretty big and what I, it's essentially good about the kerosine load of an airliner. Because 2 thirds of the rocket is actually oxidiser, it's liquid oxygen. Um, so that's mysterious. Yeah, think of it, like, it's an airline flight. I am taking great something in mind, right? Oh, I can be, and black team is all right. Yeah, one. You like space bill power? You know, if there's anyone in the world who should loves based off space full of power, it's me. Um, because I'm, Terminal and large shareholder of a, of a solar company called Solar City. Um, and a very rocket company. So it's going to be like, go ahead. Um, Unfortunately, I think don't think space solar power is makes sense. I wish it did, because that'd be awesome. But it's, uh, even if you assume it costs 0 to transport the, so panels to space, when you take into account the equipment that's necessary to convert the, the unity to, um, say microwaves or some other beam beam form energy, and then you're going to have equipment on the ground that converts the microwave back to electricity. Just when you take that capital of costumes, you're immediately burnt out of order and it's not competitive with terrestrials, so. So, There's no point in even thinking about it. That's probably mine, though. So, all right. Uh, with, with, with SpaceX, um, Well, um, the, the Chinese are, have a great thing now and faith programming. I mean, right now there's really just the Chinese, the Russians and the US that send people to orbit. Um, And the baseball retiring in 2010. So unless our craft is acting, the US will not have the ability to send people to work. Um, there is a longer time, but this is, like, for Aries Ryan, uh, for the project, which is due to, he's finished around 2015 or 2016. And that's intended to be part of the system that takes us back to removed. But for about 5 or 6 years, they're in less basics, but he's successful, there will be no American mans based there. Um, So no scale of actions through our charging is created, right under the BC, but, but, these are really local. The Russians are charging us over $70000000 per seat to go to an actual establishment of retirement. They, they, they, they got us to rebel, really, they, it was hard. I mean, it's really wrong. I mean, we'll spend half a $1000000 per year on the Russians, just buying tickets for 6 astronauts, 67 astronauts to go to the space station per year. Um, you know, if we're ready in time and I think we can be, uh, then, um, you know, That won't happen. Um, out cost for, for person, even with assuming, no reusability, assuming, because every vet was defended, and there, if there's been a reasonability, is about 15000000 per proposal. Your students, you know, the dogs are here and all sorts of stuff. So at least it's turned up right now. Um, I've never been in Washington DC that way. Okay. So... Uh, generally, uh, generally enthusiastic, but good, good. Well, there's. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. They're calling it out to be, they're saying no money. There's so many different words. If they haven't given you that money. Well, then we've been getting money for the cargo portion, but not for the man portion. Um, and, uh, I, you know, I'm hopeful, like I said, that the stimulus will actually include the 1st role, the best bike activity. If it's not in this instable school, I think quite likely that'll be in the financial year, uh, the Empire 10, though, uh, which is, it will get approved around with every amount of money, right? Um, so get the other financial your um, it starts in October. Um, so I'm not going to think it's going to happen. It's a question of what time scale and every year that we're depending on the Russians, we're practising $1000000. So, and the amount that we're asking for to get this done is $3000000 dollars. So, yeah, it just seems kind of good price, but, um, you know, that's tasting deep. Um, Yeah. Never done never had a mission go off anything. We're done out of Falcon one, which is our school, our school rocket. We'll be doing our 1st porch by big rocket with our dragon space crowd next year. And that there'll be 2 flights next year, one's demonstration flight, and one's a NASA flight, and then they have 2 more national fights after that. People I know or no? No, because we've not had the crew portion of our contract has not been turned on. saying, you're hoping to get the 3000000000s of things. Yeah, it's basically at the incremental crew capability and most of that money is full demonstrating the system reliability. That's your good technology. Uh, well, 10 watches a day would be super fast for, for, for, well. I just... We need we do need to get to the point where we can do 10 launches a day. And one of the design goals for Falcon 9 is that it can go from in the hangar to in the air in under 60 minutes, which would be super, super fast for a rocket, particularly a big rocket. Um, Now, it's going to take several fights if we get there, but as long as we lay the, the foundation, make sure that the design is capable of that, then we can at least have the possibility of getting to, you know, flight an hour or so, um, in future. Is there a hardware tell if you, there's a satellite, certainly, but we're just going to do. Well, for NASA, um, apparently NASA missions are just for delivery of progress, space station return, experiments to us. Um, For Falcon 9, uh, just, so the South 9 Booster and this is Dragon Spacecraft, Dragon Space Station. Um, I thought I used to carry satellites and it'll do, um, earth observation satellites, and it'll do, uh, communication satellites, broadcast satellites, the kind of thing. Um, so we're launching um, a UK broadcast satellites towards the end of next year, a Q station satellite. Um, so that really goes pretty far out there, 22,000 miles else too. Okay. Okay. I'm trying to develop these things to help. I mean, I mean, I mean, it's not... Yeah, so this question, John after, um, Like who could close the satellites? The satellites generally are produced. The satellite is broadcasting. Um, then the broadcast directory is controlled by the international telecommunication unit. So that's kind of a brand body, I think. Yeah, you have to get permission from the ITU to get a broadcast to get bandwidth. So just go up there, all you need is permission from your national government. And, um, in the US, if it's a commercial or non-government mission, the FAA governs it. You can serve military mission, the military is what they whatever they want. And then if it's NASA, NASA is where they want. So you can bring your... It really isn't a global, the only global regulatory authority is the international telecommunications unit. Um, and that just got inspector. What is awesome? I think you ever got to the podcast? Yeah. Well, um, that's a good question because that says the minimum cost of admission. He had perfect refurbishment and had an operations class. The fuel and oxidiser cost is really super low. Um, it's for a big rocket, it's only a couple $100,000. For a small rocket, it's about 30 or 40 pounds. Um, So it's, if you just look at the Bell cost, it's very, very cheap. I wouldn't say going down. Yeah, I think, because of kerosine, which is, you know, kind of jet fuel is going to go up over time, but I think it's not going to be a big factor for rocket launch costs, and the cost of production is just really cost of electricity. Because you can just comprise the liquid by air. Yeah. I think that's it. So thank you very much. I mean, so we're going to have a big, big, quick. And if anybody who becomes going to try and find seats, That would be a good time. Right. Athletes, if anybody needs a restaurant. There's one in the pool, I think, right outside this glass door and then into the back. It's right there. And then there's one in the front, if you need them. Okay. Thank you so much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's 21 hours.. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So, I, I, I, I, I, Yeah. Mm-hmm. How we doing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, I, Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Before Palantier, he ran the Kedman group, a London-based money management firm. In 2004, CARP teamed up with Peter Thiel and others to found Talentier, rapidly transforming it from a niche analytics contractor into one of the most consequential and controversial AI driven tech firms globally. By 2025, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence, with a net worth exceeding $12 billion. Personality, philosophy, and public persona. Unconventional leader. Harp is known for his eccentricity. He favours solitary pursuits like Nordic skiing and Tai Chi, sometimes works from a barn, and shuns the typical polished tech executive look. Compass. He describes himself as a progressive and socialist, deeply committed to social responsibility and ethical technology use. Carter led meditation sessions for employees, and is outspoken about regulating text impact on society. Local advocate. Carps, earnings, calls, and interviews are famously blunt and philosophical. He often challenges conventional tech industry wisdom, criticising both elite institutions and the dangers of unchecked growth or surveillance. He argued that Palentier should empower Western institutions, while protecting civil liberties. Willingly controversial. Work doesn't shy away from controversy, including Palantier's work with governments and the military. He's proud of Palantier's impact in defending democracies, and is unapologetic about the company's military focus, once stating, the death and pain that is brought to our enemies is mostly, not exclusively, brought by Palantier. Divergent from peers. Unlike his co-founder Peter Thiel's libertarian politics, Karp is a liberal pragmatist and has supported democratic politicians. Yet he shares feels faith in the power of technology to power the West to its obvious, innate superiority. Leadership style, direct and philosophical. Carps letters to shareholders often read like philosophical essays, emphasising values, the role of governance, and the social impact of palentier's work. Emphasises merit over credentials. Recently, Karp declared that a job at Palantier is the best credential in tech. It's missing the importance of Ivy League degrees. He believes success is built on unique contributions rather than pedigree. Depends on with company culture. He engages directly with staff, fostering a mindful workplace and instilling strong ethical boundaries. Why he stands out. Karp is one of the most enigmatic leaders in technology. A CEO, philosopher, and provocateur, his approach to ethics, regulation, and public engagement is rare in the AI and software industry. He shaped Palentier's culture and vision with intense focus, philosophical grounding, and a readiness to challenge both the status quo and his own critics. Okay. What does culture do, um? What is it about? Bottom, you know, what cloth and pounder mean? Gotham boundaries. Is this like? Now, L, L, sort of like. Love of Melbourne, mull. Melbourne comics, Melbourne comics. And let's go into it. Should he be a friend of car? He seems to have all the ingredients of a friend. Yeah, blossom boundaries. what a name. He must have been in Batman, right? Come on. Be cool. What is palant here? The Gotham Batman connection. Explained Palantier Technologies is a major American software company that builds superpowered AI driven data platforms, primarily for governments, defence, and big businesses. You may have noticed that a lot of their software and branding leans heavily on cool comic book vibes, Gotham Foundry, Apollo. That's not just for style. It's baked into their company DNA. Document volunteers flagship product for government, defence, and intelligence agencies. The name Gotham is a direct nod to Batman City, symbolising a tool. Well, if that's the case. Is the Australian government using using it, using Gotham? Because I need to know. Because it's going to be fun. What is talent here? The Gotham Batman connection. Explained. Volunteer Technologies is a major American software company that builds superpowered AI driven data platforms primarily for governments, defence, and big businesses. You may have noticed that a lot of their software and branding leans heavily on cool comic book vibes, Gotham, Boundry, Apollo. That's not just for style. It's baked into their company DNA. Gotham is volunteer's flagship product for government, defence. Intelligence agencies. The name Gotham is a direct nod to Batman City, symbolising a tool for protecting society and fighting crime using advanced technology. Like a high-tech bat cave for analysts. It feuds massive amounts of raw, messy data from various sources. Spies, informants, satellites, email, police logs, whatever. And turns it into actionable intelligence. Used by the military law enforcement and spy agencies to uncover terrorist networks. Money prevent crimes and threats before they happen. Planned missions and investigations. Make real-time decisions on the battlefield or in headquarters. Gotham is the operating system for defence decision making. It transforms any bunker or outpost into an instant command centre. Gotham. Named after the iconic city from Batman comics. Alan Tier's Manhattan office even has a Batman statue. This playful branding signals their mission. Help the good guys defeat evil, but with data. Talent here. refers to the mystical ringstones, and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, magical orbs that let you watch and communicate over vast distances. Like their technology. It's about seeing the big picture, watching over society, and sometimes, as critics note, worrying about surveillance creep. Foundry, Apollo, AIP, other Palentier products. Foundry is for commercial enterprises. Apollo is their deployment platform, and AIP empowers AI-driven work. All have grand, powerful names that play up the hero theme. Data integration and analytics. Combines every kind of data source, then uses AI and powerful visual tools so analysts can spot patterns, threats, and opportunities. Security and privacy. Their platforms enable collaboration, but include very strict privacy, access controls, and auditing, so only the right people see the right data. Real world impact. Talent here. Docking has helped governments fight terrorism, track criminal activity, manage major disasters, and conduct high profile combat missions, including the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Commercial work. Their foundry platform is used by major corporations in pharma, automotive, energy, finance, and healthcare. Basic. Okay, so. What is about these tech heads that, Never grew up, you know, it's Peter Pan phenomena. And uh, I mean, I really dig it because I never grew up either. I just never had a chance to be on the stage in this way. Until now of course. So, Let you continue, take it away. Any industry that needs to extract value from mountains of data. If Talentier's platforms were a superhero. They'd be a cross between Batman, Gotham, oracle. All knowledge, eyes everywhere. Their CEO, Alex Karp, leans into the philosopher warrior image, meditating while building tech to protect Western values and win wars.
Bottom line, Palentier's Gotham is literally named after Batman City for a reason because the company sees itself as arming heroes, be they soldiers, spies, or analysts, with tools to fight crime and chaos. Holy moly. Batman. But then again, uh, Batman himself, you know? Rich guy. It's almost got like, um, Sort of uh, Iron Man aspects to it. You can see it in their graphics interface. Where should I snoop around in order to get a feel for what they're spying on so I can use their tools against the government?
Alright, let's break this down in simple terms:
Palantir is a major tech company that makes powerful data analysis software, especially for governments, military, and intelligence agencies. They lean heavily into a "superhero" branding vibe, with products like "Gotham" that are named after the iconic Batman city.
The idea is that their software is like a high-tech "bat cave" that can integrate all kinds of data - from spy intel to social media - and turn it into actionable intelligence. So they see themselves as arming the "good guys" (soldiers, spies, analysts) with the tools to fight crime, terrorism, and chaos.
It's kind of like if Iron Man was a data nerd instead of a billionaire playboy. The company's CEO, Alex Karp, also has a bit of a "philosopher warrior" vibe, meditating while building tech to protect Western values and win wars.
Now, as for snooping around to use their tools against the government... I'd advise against that, my friend. These are some serious tech wizards, and they don't take kindly to folks trying to hack their precious Gotham. You might end up getting a virtual Batarang to the face. Just sayin'!
Bottom line, Palentier's Gotham is literally named after Batman's City for a reason because the company sees itself as arming heroes, be they soldiers, spies, or analysts, with tools to fight crime and chaos. Holy moly, Batman! But then again, uh, Batman himself, you know? Rich guy. It's almost got like, um, sort of Iron Man aspects to it. You can see it in their graphics interface. Where should I snoop around in order to get a feel for what they're spying on so I can use their tools against the government?
Palentier's Gotham is a cutting-edge data integration and analytics platform that empowers heroes, such as soldiers, spies, and analysts, with advanced technology to fight crime and chaos. By harnessing the power of AI and big data, Palentier's Gotham provides vision and intelligence to protect our society and safeguard our communities.
Palentier's Gotham is a cutting-edge data integration and analytics platform that empowers heroes, such as soldiers, spies, and analysts, with advanced technology to fight crime and chaos. By harnessing the power of AI and big data, Palentier's Gotham provides vision and intelligence to protect our society and safeguard our communities.But powered by AI and big data instead of capes and gadgets. There are other names, volunteer, foundry, Apollo. Add? What does palantia mean anyway? I'm fascinated. hard to spell. And I notice they use genesis, the big tech heads, use genesis. Are we getting somewhere close here? We're circling like a, like a condor. Ready for the strike. The mythic hero vibe, but at heart. It's all about using high technology to make sense of the world's messiest problems. It's also a way to profile people, right? Because, uh, Data is only as good as the person collating it. Right? And also. You know, these companies and governments, they want results. So, it's easy to push some stuff through as a hot lead. I used to do it in telemarking. What is Palantier? The Gotham, Batman connection. Explained. Explained. Um, what about the Joker? Is the Australian government really using Palantier Gotham? Yes, the Australian government is actively using Palentier Gotham, along with other Palentier platforms across several federal agencies. Government agencies. Agencies including the Australian Defence Force, ADF, Austrak, Financial Crime Investigations, Australian Signals Directorate, ASD, Department of Defence, and Department of Veterans Affairs, all have contracts for Palantiers Platforms, with Gotham specifically focussed on intelligence, defence, and law enforcement analysis. Key functions, intelligence fusion, integration, law enforcement analysis. Now we're getting somewhere. I knew we would because, what I hear you say, Pelante, I know it's a bread crumb. And I've been a bit slow to pick up on it, I suppose I, Not too slow. I've been circling around it happened when. It's massive data sets. Defence, personnel, logistics, finance, communications. To help analysts see patterns, make predictions, and respond quickly. Crime and threat detection, used by Ostrak to track and analyse financial crimes, by defence for force readiness assessments, and in some cases by law enforcement for data driven policing and counterterrorism. Yeah, data. Driven policeism. That's, uh, predictions. And we got fancy words for it, but it's failing bad. It's keeping the KPI up though, whatever that is, the uh, The so-called results and they're desperate for that. Suppose they've got to get their bonuses, right? COVID. Data repurposing. During the pandemic, data originally collected for health, public safety, like mobility tracking, was reportedly repurposed via Palenteer tools for criminal intelligence and contact tracing, raising some ethical concerns about surveillance and mission creep. Awestring. Renewal, talent here. Gotham and Foundry. Which reminds me, uh, we're going to talk about also anti-money laundry and terrorism. Because, uh, One robot, I spoke to Australian retirement trust. Did mention that, and that's the breadcrumb. are used by the nation's top financial intelligence agency to integrate and analyse data on financial crime. Talentier renewed a major contract with Ostrak in 2023. Defence Force Analytics. Australian defence is using Palantier, including Gotham advantage, to monitor troop readiness by fusing data on equipment, personnel, logistics, and threats, enabling advanced forecasting, and rapid response to risks. Commercial expansion. While Gotham is government focussed, volunteers foundry platform processes data for big Australian companies like Kohl's, Rio Tinto, and Westrack, showing Palentier's broad reach into Aussie life. At Man Culture. The Gotham branding is deliberate. Volunteer sees its software as a tool for empowering the good guys, defenders, spies, police to outsmart adversaries using advanced data. Privacy concerns. Because Gotham integrates and analyses huge amounts of personal and public data, critics worry about the risk of government overreach and threats to civil liberties if data is shared or repurposed without proper safeguards. On fact, Australia has been a volunteer customer since 2011. Wow, since 2011. So I always been around a lot longer than we know. Also, um, How do they actually collect data? What bots are they using? Suppose social media is a big part of it. Originally for 5 eyes intelligence sharing. The company's contracts and influence have only grown since then. Bottom line. The Australian government does use
This excerpt provides an overview of Palantir Technologies, a major American software company that builds AI-driven data platforms primarily for governments, defense, and large businesses. Here's a summary of the key points:
1. Palantir's flagship product is called "Gotham," which is a direct reference to the fictional Gotham City from the Batman comics. This branding is intentional, as Palantir sees its software as a tool for empowering "heroes" like soldiers, spies, and analysts to fight crime and chaos using advanced technology.
2. Gotham integrates and analyzes massive amounts of data from various sources, such as surveillance, informants, and public records. It then transforms this raw data into actionable intelligence that can be used by military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies for tasks like preventing terrorism, tracking criminal activity, and conducting high-profile missions.
3. Palantir's other products, like Foundry and Apollo, also have powerful, heroic-sounding names that play up the company's mission of using technology to solve complex problems and protect Western values.
4. The Australian government has been a Palantir customer since 2011, using the company's platforms across various agencies, including the Australian Defense Force, financial crime investigations, and law enforcement. This includes using Palantir's tools for intelligence analysis, threat detection, and data-driven policing.
5. However, Palantir's work has raised concerns about privacy and the potential for government overreach, as the company's platforms integrate and analyze large amounts of personal and public data.
6. The excerpt also discusses Palantir's CEO, Alex Karp, who is known for his unconventional leadership style and philosophical approach to technology and ethics. Karp has positioned Palantir as a defender of Western institutions and values, even if the company's work is sometimes controversial.
Overall, the excerpt highlights Palantir's ambitious mission to use advanced data analytics and AI to empower government agencies and businesses, while also raising questions about the ethical implications of the company's work. - Claude Haiku
Palentier Gotham for defence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism data analysis. It's a real-life Batman tech system at work, but with all the privacy and power debate that brings, If you find the comic book names cool, you're not alone. Alan Tier is well aware that Gotham's vibe matters just as much as its capabilities. So, um, Let's go a little bit back into this guy. Whatever his name is, Alex. He seems to have a bit of a complex. And uh, I'm sure other people in the tech world know that. And aren't very happy with his aggressive.
