New episode of @SpaceX documentary
A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship
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With an Internet connection, you can learn anything and sell your products to a global market, which enables prosperity
Elon Musk on the single biggest poverty lever.
"And I think the single biggest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty and help them is giving them an internet connection."
Most aid arguments still start with cash, food, or roads. Elon is saying the unlock is a connection — once you are online, knowledge is free and your market is the planet.
• Low-cost, high-bandwidth internet where cables never reached
• Learn anything for free once you are connected
• Sell goods and services into the global market
Internet is the ladder.
Starlink is how you build it from the sky.
SpaceX already flies most of the mass that makes that network possible.
"Because once you have the internet connection, you can learn anything for free on the internet. And you can also sell your goods and services to the global market."
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Larry, a 98-year-old, just bought a new @Tesla Model Y, and he uses FSD (Supervised) to drive him everywhere. His first car was a 1931 Ford Model A haha. He uses Grok to navigate.
"It has no problems. In fact, the other day FSD stopped when a chipmunk was crossing the road."
Definitely a video worth checking out: youtube.com/watch?v=aqVrSErW…
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Tesla virtual powerplant grid stabilization system
~69,000 Powerwall owners across California are currently dispatching more than 500 MW to the grid, helping meet peak demand during today's heatwave
Equivalent to the output of a power plant, but from Powerwalls already in people's homes
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Congrats Boring Company team!
The Boring Company is pleased to announce our Series D funding round of $3 billion, led by the United Arab Emirates. The financing now values The Boring Company at $23 billion.
Other key investors in the round include Human Capital, Vy Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, A16Z, Temasek, Shamal Holding, and Baron Capital, in addition to other valued existing and new investors.
Full details here:
boringcompany.com/series-d
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Extending consciousness beyond Earth, ultimately to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal
SpaceX’s road to making humanity multiplanetary is really incredible when you see the milestones together
- 2008 → Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit
- 2010 → Falcon 9 completes its first flight
- 2012 → Dragon becomes the first private spacecraft to visit the ISS
- 2015 → Falcon 9 lands on land for the first time
- 2016 → First Falcon 9 droneship landing
- 2017 → First Falcon 9 booster reflight
- 2018 → Falcon Heavy launches for the first time
- 2020 → SpaceX returns human spaceflight to America
- 2021 → Starship SN15 completes a successful high-altitude flight and landing
- 2021 → Inspiration4 becomes the first all-civilian crew to orbit
- 2022 → Starship and Super Heavy become a full stack
- 2023 → First integrated Starship flight
- 2024 → Super Heavy gets caught by the launch tower for the first time
- 2025 → A Super Heavy booster flies for a second time
- 2026 → Starship V3 and Raptor 3 take flight
18 years of relentless iteration.
Falcon 1 → Falcon 9 → Dragon → Falcon Heavy → Starship.
Each milestone solved another piece of the puzzle
And the destination has stayed the same from the beginning:
Make life multiplanetary
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Grok @Bot runs on its own computer in the cloud 24/7, so it doesn’t matter if you turn off your laptop
one real issue I have with various agents now is "where is this code going to run"
- does it need access to my local filesystem
- can I fire it off from my phone and if so does it run on the cloud or needs my Mac mini fired up / synced?
The current UX metaphors around this seem to need work.
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To bring large AI data centers online requires building massive power plants, transformers, liquid cooling loops & chillers, as well as incredibly complex networking (especially for training clusters)
BREAKING: Elon Musk says Google and Anthropic are leasing AI compute from SpaceX amid a growing power shortage, adding that SpaceX has brought AI compute online better than anyone else so far.
“Even before next year, there are challenges with power, which is why Google, Anthropic and many other companies are leasing compute from SpaceX. We’ve been able to bring AI compute online better than anyone else so far. Constructing our own power plants is the only way we were able to do it”
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Movies make people fear the wrong thing
Three Mile Island produced zero deaths, a chest X-ray dose, and a 30 freeze on new American reactors.
A stuck valve and a misread gauge caused a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979. “The China Syndrome”, a movie about a cover up at a nuclear plant, released in theaters 12 days earlier, so newsrooms had a field day with this one.
While Thornburgh advised pregnant women and small children only inside a five mile radius, national coverage turned it into a regional evacuation.
Panic eased when Carter walked the control room 4 days later, but the damage was done.
Columbia’s 1990 study of 32,000 nearby residents found no significant cancer increase. Nuclear stayed one of the safest energy sources ever measured. But the movie and the headlines didn’t allow a return to normalcy.
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Summary of my G20 address
Grok Bot Summary of Elon Musk’s G20 Address Today 🇺🇸
Power, data centers, and the bottleneck
- There’s already a power crisis for AI, not a far-off one.
- Consensus he cited: at least a 15 gigawatt shortfall of power in 2027 for AI chips.
- AI chip production is rising ~40–50% a year. Power outside China is rising ~10–20%. The faster curve will overwhelm the slower one.
- Google, Anthropic, and others are already leasing compute from SpaceX because SpaceX built its own power plants. That was the only way they could turn capacity on fast enough.
- China has lots of electricity, but GPU export bans block the latest chips there. The real constraint is electricity growth outside China.
- Opportunity for other countries: build a lot of power, host AI data centers, and tax them / charge reasonable fees.
AI as a growth engine
- Countries should lean into new tech instead of staying stuck in the past.
- His rough estimate: digital AI alone could lift the global economy by 20–30%, or about $20–30 trillion a year.
- By the end of next year, AI should be able to do anything digital, anything that doesn’t require physically shaping atoms by hand.
- Software prediction: in about 12–18 months, AI writing software will be “Stockfish-level.” Humans won’t be able to compete, the way a chess engine on a phone can already beat Magnus Carlsen.
- Same window: AI becomes extremely good, possibly that same level, at all forms of engineering and anything digital.
- He also plugged 𝕏 as where almost all serious AI discourse happens, and said that’s how he follows the field day to day.
Robotics and physical AI
- Physical tech always takes longer than digital. Software copies instantly. Hardware needs huge global supply chains and moving a lot of atoms.
- A humanoid robot’s usefulness is three things multiplied: AI software × onboard AI chip × electromechanical dexterity (especially the hands). All three are improving exponentially.
- Once robots start making more robots, growth goes recursive: slow at first, then explosive.
- 10-year forecast (he called it conservative): well over a billion humanoid robots, each about 5× as productive as a human. That would mean those robots outproduce all humans combined.
- That physical layer is where he sees the economy growing by a factor of 10 or more, not just 20–30%.
How countries actually get new tech built?
- New things should be default legal, not default illegal. Heavy regulation (he pointed at the EU) doesn’t kill progress, but it slows it a lot.
- Startups are like saplings in a forest. Most governments over-support the big existing trees (incumbents) and under-support the small ones.
- Big companies have access to political leaders. Startups don’t. Policy should be biased toward young companies on purpose.
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