Name: Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space"
Uploaded: 2026-02-05T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 50 s
Description: Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space"

“SpaceX is gearing up to do 10,000 launches a year and maybe even 20 or 30,000 launches a year.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 18:06-18:15

“China does twice as much ore refining on average as the rest of the world combined.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:32:42-1:32:58

“China is at 98% of gallium refining.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:33:05-1:33:08

“Interest payments to national debt exceed the military budget, which is a trillion dollars.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:20:50-2:20:55

“There shouldn't be 20 million people marked as alive in Social Security who are indefinitely dead and over the age of 115.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:23:16-2:23:26

“The Government Accountability Office...calculated [fraud] at roughly half a trillion dollars.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:24:57-2:25:07

“Outside of China, electrical output is more or less flat.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 00:51-00:59

“China has a rapid increase in electrical output.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 01:02-01:06

“The output of chips is growing pretty much exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 01:11-01:17

“It's harder to scale on ground than it is to scale in space.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 02:08-02:14

“You're going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 02:17-02:24

“The atmosphere alone results in about a 30% loss of energy.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 02:44-02:50

“My prediction is that it will be by far the cheapest place to put AI will be space in 36 months or less.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 03:07-03:17

“If you're going to climb the Kardashev scale and harness some non-trivial percentage of the sun's energy... that would be about, call it…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 04:37-22:33

“All of the United States currently uses only half a terawatt per hour on average.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 04:53-04:59

“If you say a terawatt, that would be twice as much electricity as the United States currently consumes.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 05:00-05:06

“The utility industry is a very slow industry.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 05:36-05:39

“They have to do a study for a year.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 06:13-06:16

“It's the vanes and blades in the turbines that are the limiting factor because the casting, it's like a very specialized process.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 06:58-07:08

“The tariffs currently for importing solar in the US are gigantic and the domestic solar production is pitiful.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 07:20-07:28

“Both SpaceX and Tesla are bowling towards 100 gigawatts here of solar cell production.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 07:34-07:41

“The tariffs are nuts, several hundred percent.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 13:51-13:54

“We are scaling solar production. There's a rate at which you can scale physical production of solar cells.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 14:53-15:03

“Both Tesla and SpaceX have mandate to get to 100 gigawatts a year of solar.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 15:09-15:15

“SpaceX will launch more AI than the cumulative amount on Earth of everything else combined.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 18:33-18:39

“There's obviously a lot more capital available in the public markets than private. I mean, it might be, it's at least, at least, it might be…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 19:46-19:57

“Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sun's energy.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 21:45-21:49

“With solar, from launching from Earth you can get to about a terawatt per year.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 22:40-22:46

“Beyond that, you want to launch from the moon, you want to have a mass driver on the moon, and that mass driver on the moon you could do…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 22:46-22:59

“You can't partner with existing fabs because they can't output enough, the chip volume is too low.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 24:05-24:12

“The fabs today all basically use machines from like five companies.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 24:17-24:23

“China would be outputting vast numbers of chips at [2 or 3 nanometers] if not for ASML sanctions.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 26:03-26:07

“China's going to start making pretty compelling chips in three or four years.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 26:16-26:20

“Tesla's pedals to the metal max production of going as fast as possible to get AI5 Tesla AI5 chip design into production and then reaching…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 28:51-29:10

“We've secured all the chip fab production that we can.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 29:20-29:26

“We'll be using TSMC Taiwan, Samsung Korea, TSMC Arizona, Samsung Texas.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 29:30-29:39

“From start to finish is a five year period [to reach volume production at high yield].”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 29:59-30:02

“They're building fabs as fast as they can and so is Samsung.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 30:26-30:31

“Lunar soil is I guess like 20% solar or 20% silicon or something like that.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 34:35-34:40

“I don't see any way that you could do 500 to 1,000 terawatts per year launch from Earth. I agree, but you could do that from the moon.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 35:24-35:36

“The vast majority of intelligence in the future will be AI.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 37:22-37:26

“Humans will be a very tiny percentage of all intelligence in the future if current trends continue.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 37:45-37:51

“I think it's difficult to imagine that if humans have say 1% of the intelligence of combined intelligence, of artificial intelligence, that…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 39:08-39:23

“Most of what colonizes the galaxy will be robots.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 47:33-47:37

“I don't think humans will be in control of something that is vastly more intelligent than humans.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 48:44-48:49

“If AI is like, let's say that there's a million times more silicon intelligence than there is biological, I think it would be foolish to…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 49:00-49:17

“If you make AI be politically correct, meaning it says things that it doesn't believe, you're actually then programming it to lie.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 50:10-50:28

“You can't fool physics.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 53:16-53:18

“Humans get fooled as it is by other humans all the time.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 53:22-53:25

“We have several hundred people who. I mean, I prefer the word engineer more than I prefer the word researcher.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 55:29-55:38

“The vast majority of what we'll be done in the future is engineering.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 56:26-56:29

“I'd be surprised by the end of this year if digital human emulation has not been solved.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:00:44-1:00:52

“A human at a computer is the most that AI can do in terms of doing useful things before you have a physical robot.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:01:58-1:02:10

“Once you have physical robots, then you essentially have unlimited capability physical robots.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:02:09-1:02:16

“Humanoid robots will improve as basically be three things that are growing exponentially multiplied by each other recursively.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:02:23-1:02:35

“Harnessing a millionth of the sun's energy would be roughly 100,000 times bigger than Earth's entire economy today.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:03:37-1:03:50

“The way that Tesla solved self-driving is the way to do it [for Xai].”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:04:43-1:04:54

“As soon as you unlock digital human, you basically have access to trillions of dollars of revenue.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:06:59-1:07:07

“If AI can do customer service using the apps they already use, you can make tremendous headway in customer service.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:08:57-1:09:20

“I think I know the path to do this because it's kind of the same path that Tesla used to create self driving.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:12:39-1:12:47

“Humanoid robots at scale, they will make products and provide services far more efficiently than human corporations.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:15:12-1:15:22

“Pure AI corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:15:56-1:16:08

“Pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:17:09-1:17:19

“Optimus will have [a hand with all the degrees of freedom of a human hand].”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:18:34-1:18:36

“There is no supply chain for [custom actuators, motors, gears, power electronics, controls, sensors].”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:19:01-1:19:04

“From an electromechanical standpoint, the hand is more difficult than everything else combined.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:19:12-1:19:17

“We'll soon have like 10 million cars on the road.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:23:17-1:23:20

“We're going to need to build a lot of robots and put them in kind of like an optimus academy.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:23:32-1:23:40

“GROK would orchestrate the behavior of the Optimus robots.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:24:54-1:24:58

“We're going forward with mass manufacturing.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:25:55-1:25:58

“Optimus 3 is the right version of the robot to produce maybe something on the order of like a million units a year.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:26:10-1:26:21

“Optimus initial production will be...a stretched out S curve because so much of what goes into Optimus is brand new.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:26:50-1:27:00

“Everything, literally everything [in Optimus]...is custom designed.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:27:15-1:27:15

“It will get to a million [units].”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:27:54-1:27:57

“Our Optimus is designed to have a lot of intelligence and to have the same electromechanical dexterity, if not higher than a human.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:28:19-1:28:29

“Over time, as Optimus robots build Optimus robots, the cost will drop very quickly.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:29:06-1:29:13

“The best use for robots in the beginning will be any continuous operations, any 24x7 operation because they can work continuously.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:29:25-1:29:38

“Maybe it's like 10, 20%, maybe more [of work at a gigafactory that Gen 3 could do].”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:29:43-1:29:48

“Electricity output in the U.S. needs to scale up.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:30:42-1:30:45

“This administration is good at removing permitting roadblocks.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:31:19-1:31:24

“We actually do rare earth ore mining in the U.S. send the rock, we put it on a train and then put on a boat to China.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:33:33-1:33:44

“China's probably just twice as much refining as the rest of the world combined.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:39:35-1:39:40

“I think this year China will exceed three times US electricity output.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:40:23-1:40:29

“In the absence of breakthrough innovations in, in the us China will utterly dominate.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:41:23-1:41:34

“Tesla's sort of senior team at this point probably got average tenure of 10 or 12 years.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:47:48-1:47:58

“When Apple had their electric car program, they were carpet bombing Tesla with recruiting calls.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:49:00-1:49:07

“Their opening offer without any interview with me, like double the compensation at Tesla.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:49:15-1:49:21

“Tesla still has a majority of its engineering in California.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:50:47-1:50:58

“Carbon fiber is roughly 50 times the cost of steel.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:56:08-1:56:19

“For the Falcon 9, the primary airframe is made of aluminum lithium.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:58:33-1:58:41

“I want to avoid using aluminum lithium for the primary structure for Starship.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 1:59:22-1:59:29

“The Atlas rockets had used a steel balloon tank.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:00:26-2:00:29

“The strength weight [of stainless steel at cryogenic temperature] is actually similar to carbon fiber.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:00:49-2:00:54

“300 series stainless that's strain hardened... has a similar strength to weight as carbon fiber, but costs 50 times less.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:02:06-2:02:25

“The melting point of steel is about twice the melting point of aluminum.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:02:58-2:03:10

“The steel rocket weighs less than the carbon fiber rocket because the resin in the carbon fiber rocket starts to melt.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:03:48-2:03:58

“We should have started with done steel. In the beginning. It was dumb not to do steel.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:04:25-2:04:29

“The carbon fiber is much less resilient than steel. It has much less toughness.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:05:18-2:05:25

“Starship is the most complicated machine ever made by humans.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:06:41-2:06:46

“Nobody has ever made a fully reusable orbital rocket.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:07:06-2:07:10

“Falcon is partially reusable, but the upper stage is not.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:07:25-2:07:29

“Starship version 3... can be fully reusable.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:07:29-2:07:39

“Full reusability is what will enable us to become a multi planet civilization.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:07:39-2:07:45

“Any technical problem, even like a hydronic collider or something like that, is an easier problem than this [Starship].”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:07:50-2:07:56

“We've had two bursters explode on the test stand.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:08:10-2:08:13

“The Raptor 3 engine is a very, very advanced engine. By far the best rocket engine ever made.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:08:37-2:08:43

“On lift off, the rocket is generating over 100 gigawatts of power.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:08:48-2:08:54

“No one has ever made a reusable orbital heat shield.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:09:40-2:09:44

“We have brought the ship back and had it do a soft landing in the ocean.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:10:17-2:10:22

“It lost a lot of tiles. It was not reusable without a lot of work.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:10:24-2:10:32

“I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:12:07-2:12:09

“Without AI and robots, nothing else will solve the national debt.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:21:22-2:21:27

“The government is very ineffective at stopping fraud...they just print more money.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:25:19-2:25:37

“The states more or less need to stay within their budget and go bankrupt, but the federal government just prints more money.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:26:05-2:26:11

“Payments were being sent out with no appropriation code, not checking back to any congressional appropriation and no explanation.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:27:42-2:27:51

“This is why the Department of War, formerly Department of Defense, cannot pass an audit because the information is literally not there.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:27:52-2:28:00

“Federal government expenditures are 7.5 trillion a year.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:28:20-2:28:23

“Most of the fraud is non discretionary. It's basically a fraudulent Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:28:34-2:28:41

“A bunch of these payments are in fact, they're block transfers to the states.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:28:50-2:28:58

“If it's only 90%, that means that there's $750 billion a year of waste and fraud.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:29:27-2:29:33

“Acquiring Twitter, getting Trump elected, even though it makes a lot of people angry, I think those actions are good for civilization.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:32:18-2:32:29

“The government is just the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:34:29-2:34:33

“Corporations have better morality than the government.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:34:55-2:34:59

“The US Constitution is intended to limit the powers of government.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:35:22-2:35:39

“The terafab's got to do memory, it's got to do logic memory and packaging.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:41:45-2:41:49

“The current limiting factor that I see in the time frame, in the sort of 2029, in the three to four year time frame, it's chips. In the one…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:45:36-2:45:58

“Towards the end of this year, I think people are going to have real trouble turning on like the chip output will exceed the ability to turn…”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:46:10-2:46:18

“We're trying to accelerate electricity production.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:46:20-2:46:23

“XAI will be able to scale hardware the fastest and therefore most likely will be the leader.”

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" | Uploaded February 5, 2026 | 2:47:15-2:47:21

Elon Musk: “Maybe in five or six years AI will exceed the sum of all…”