John Collison

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Cheeky Pint · Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

Uh for this.

And will we be able to manufacture those at scale?

Yes.

Is anything hard except the hand from a manipulation point of view, or once you've solved the hand, are you are you good?

One intuition you could have um for when we get this robotic stuff is that it takes quite a few years to go from the compelling demo to actually being able to use in the real world.

So 10 years ago, you had really compelling demos of self-driving, but only now we have RoboTaxi and Waymo and all these services scaling up.

Doesn't this shouldn't this make one pessimistic on say household robots?

Because we don't even quite have the compelling demos yet of, say, the really advanced hand.

Well, we've been working on uh humanoid

Don't you need to merge X AI and Tesla then? 'Cause these things end up so

Okay, but you can do a million year at Optimus three.

Yes.

And what will these first billion Optimuses Optimi do?

Like what will their highest and best use be?

We're talking about Chinese manufacturing um a bunch here.

And um we're also talking about, you know, we've talked about some of the policies that are relevant, like you mentioned, the uh the solar tariffs.

Yeah.

Uh and you think they're a bad idea because, you know, we can't uh scale up solar in the US.

can't without

uh like good outsources of yeah.

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