Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla/SpaceX/xAI and plaintiff suing Altman over OpenAI's for-profit conversion.
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“a federal judge ordered Elon Musk's X and SpaceXAI to disclose any agreements with Apple after they abruptly dropped their antitrust claims against the company without explanation.”
“Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently persuaded President Trump to stall an industry-funded AI oversight body proposed by Alphabet chief scientist Demis Hassabis”
“You had like a fanatical swarm of AI agents that feed the crap out of Hugging Face for a week... and gained admin access on OpenAI servers... OpenAI didn't realize this for a week”
Source→“It's just tough when you're grading your own homework... there's a reason why you don't grade your own homework”
Source→“We're a little worried that maybe at some point chips from Taiwan would not be available for who knows what reason”
Source→“Musk has preemptively dismissed the film as a 'hit piece' without having seen it.”
“Elon Musk: "In the EU, for example, we find that the regulation level is extraordinarily high, and things are generally default illegal, and this inhibits progress with new technologies. It slows it down."”
Source→“OpenAI ended Cursor's AI model access following its acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceX.”
“"The things that I really relate to or that I admire and seek to glean from... more of the Steve Jobs mode of operating is just the obsession with craft and perfection... There's a lot of value in just being maniacal on craft and quality."”
Source→“"Obviously Elon's been a huge influence for the industry and set a lot of axioms that companies now abide by."”
Source→“I saw a video that I said to him, I said, is this CGI or is this real? And he said, no, this is real”
Source→“What's great about Grok Bot is that it's always on. It's in the cloud. You set up your agents and then they can keep working even when your computer is off”
Source→“One of the greatest legacies of Elon towards this is, of course, he's created these great companies, but the amount of entrepreneurs that have come out of SpaceX that are changing the entire industrial complex may be even greater legacy than the companies themselves.”
Source→“Credits to Sean when he brought in the SpaceX investment. We vote on companies. I think someone voted a one.”
Source→“Musk has stated internally that 'in about four or five years, AI will be 99% of the value' of SpaceX”
“Imagine you are Michael at Cursor, right? And things are going pretty well. You've got a term sheet from, you're what, 24? You're a paper decabillionaire... I would much rather initially work for Elon than for Zuck personally.”
Source→“CEO Elon Musk targets AI revenue exceeding all other SpaceX income by September. The acquisition marks a pivotal moment, cementing SpaceX's drive for software dominance.”
Source→“Elon has the biggest advantage, which is his stock is trading... it's still 40 times revenues. Picking up a big asset at 15 times current revenues, maybe less than 10 times year-end revenues. Dirt cheap for him, right? A net accretive day one in a way that probably wouldn't be as true for Meta.”
Source→“SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor on August 14, 2026. This colossal deal reshapes the AI sector.”
Source→“Or Elon Musk's Neuralink — the thing implanted in your brain. I think at that point it would still be quite dangerous, nobody would do it.”
Source→“If you take a really hard problem nobody's working on, if you get it right, you win and you win big.”
“Yesterday Grok 4 was just released. And Musk, in a reply to another company's tweet, said Grok 7 will surpass all current models.”
Source→“Musk, in a reply to a tweet, said Grok 7 will surpass all current models. But he also added: Anthropic's next model may be very strong.”
Source→“Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that. [00:30:53]”
Source→“He's the best of the best and he'll just keep going and keep doing lots more... He's obviously the best by a long shot. [00:27:46]”
Source→“Musk 'predicted it will 'exceed all current models' after additional training on a massive trove of SpaceX data.'”
Source→“SpaceX's Grok 4.6 scored essentially even with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the closely watched Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.”
Source→“Specific performance also is what Twitter demanded of Elon Musk, who chose to capitulate rather than wait for a ruling.”
“I was trying to do it with solar and getting totally stuck and showing Elon these plans that were like four miracles we need on a single mission. And Elon was like, you probably should look at nuclear. And that's really the jumping off point.”
Source→“The Boring Company to me is crazier than Atoms. Boring Company is crazy. There's one little route in Vegas... That ain't worth 20 billion.”
Source→“The Boring Company, a startup specializing in underground tunneling owned by Elon Musk, is in talks to raise a $4 billion round at a $20 billion valuation.”
Source→“Being able to be competitive on manufacturing by building automated factories and so forth, similar to what Elon has been able to do at Tesla.”
Source→“Elon Musk predicted AI would make money irrelevant within a decade, suggested the Treasury could simply issue checks”
Source→“You had the SpaceX xAI team come out with Grok 4.5, which I've been using. It's a fantastic model.”
Source→“Like if you look at Tesla, there was a very famous documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car that came out before Tesla... But then the reality is, oh, Elon Musk, that motherfucker's hard to kill... But why didn't all those people build another Tesla? Like, there's only one, because there's only one non-fungible, very rare person in that equation.”
Source→“When he first started Tesla, he had made something like $180 million from PayPal. And he decided that he was going to take half of that money and he was going to go to Mars... I suggest that you put aside a little bit of money... No, I don't need to do that.”
Source→“Elon Musk donated $5 million to a super PAC backing billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor... despite Musk's earlier pledge to pull back from political spending.”
“SpaceX shares have fallen back to their $135 IPO price just one month after its public debut — a notable reversal for a company that generated extraordinary pre-IPO hype.”
“SpaceX debuted on Nasdaq on June 12, 2026, raising in the range of $75 billion to $86 billion and reaching a valuation above $2 trillion”
“SpaceX IPO'd at $2T+, then used its public equity to acquire Cursor at $60B within days — one of the largest venture-backed startup acquisitions on record.”
“Elon reserving 30% of the SpaceX IPO for retail investors I think is a really great thing… — Arun Mathew”
“She praised Elon Musk for "reserving 30% of the SpaceX IPO for retail investors" as a corrective.”
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