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Elon Musk: “I think the marginal cost of production once you hit a…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding

Published | Video Starts at 05:24

And the cost of it, at scale, 20, 30, $40,000 a robot, what do you think the first wave of them will cost and when will we be able to buy one to work on the ranch? I think the marginal cost of production once you hit a million units per year is probably around the $20,000 range. It, it, it sort of depends on how much you spend on the AI chip in the, in the robot. And you need to achieve a lot of efficiencies in the actuators. (05:24–05:36)

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Asserts that the marginal cost of producing Optimus will be around $20,000 per unit at a production rate of one million units per year.

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