Elon Musk: “In the absence of breakthrough innovations in, in the us…”

“… the next few years on the sort of like whole manufacturing energy, raw materials chain, China will just dominate whether it comes to AI or manufacturing EVs or manufacturing humanoids. In the absence of breakthrough innovations in, in the us China will utterly dominate. Interesting. Yes. Robotics being the main breakthrough innovation. Well, if you do like to, to scale AI in space, like basically need space, you need the humanoid robots, you need real world AI, you need a million tons a year to orbit.” (1:41:23–1:41:34)

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