Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia

X is replacing legacy Twitter ranking rules with Grok reading the platform itself. Musk said bugs recently hid followed accounts and overfed interacted-with topics; Grok will initially read 10 million of roughly 100 million daily posts, later all of them, using about 50,000 H100s and powering semantic search.

Grokipedia was built by having Grok rewrite Wikipedia rather than by starting from a blank encyclopedia. Musk said a “truth-seeking” model reviewed the million most popular Wikipedia articles against the public web; he later texted Sundar Pichai after Google initially suggested Wikipedia instead.

Musk’s team found Twitter spending as if its largely empty headquarters were still full. One building was empty and the other about 5% occupied; lunches effectively cost about $400 each, while unused software included expensive pedestrian-traffic analytics for offices nobody used.

Musk said Tesla’s compensation vote is really about control over Optimus, not personal spending. He wants roughly 25% voting power—enough to influence robot safety while remaining removable—and said he will not build a “robot army” if activist shareholders could easily oust him.

Musk expects his OpenAI challenge to reach a jury in February or March, saying its founding bargain was abandoned. He said he conceived and named OpenAI, funded early rounds and recruited key staff, but deliberately created an open-source nonprofit whose founders were not supposed to benefit financially.

Tesla’s robotaxi challenge is shifting from autonomy toward operating a city-scale fleet. Musk expects monitor-free Austin rides by December, over 1,000 Bay Area cars and 500 around Austin by year-end, with Cybercab production starting in Q2 next year.

Musk sees Tesla’s future vehicle fleet as a distributed AI data center, not just transportation. He said 100 million Teslas with roughly one kilowatt of onboard inference each could provide about 100 gigawatts of compute, using existing power, cooling and Wi-Fi.

Musk puts serious climate risk roughly 50 years out, rejecting both denial and near-term catastrophe. He favors solar and batteries without subsidies, saying China’s 1.5-terawatt annual panel capacity could manufacture enough solar in about 18 months to roughly match U.S. electricity use after utilization losses.