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Here’s the full interview of @elonmusk with Ron Baron 0:13 - Exciting times ahead 0:21 - First principles and TerraFab 2:18 - Chip fabs geopolitical risk 5:51 - Terawatt scale ambition 6:14 - Trillion dollar phased build 7:36 - Why others don’t improve 7:49 - Austin research fab iteration 10:49 - Culture of speed and ideas 13:48 - Walking the floor hands-on 15:39 - Data centers pitchforks 16:44 - OpenAI origins Anthropic 18:09 - Building data centers fast 20:01 - Revenue exploding Jose meme 23:16 - Model Y best in China 23:28 - China ownership exception 24:50 - ARR to five hundred billion 27:45 - Digital AI economy boost 28:21 - Robotics five times productivity 30:10 - Rent robots not sell 30:41 - Memphis community benefits 32:55 - Data centers in space 33:35 - StarMind and space power 36:26 - Cost to orbit history 36:52 - Falcon nine reusability limits 39:09 - Hourly launches Starship size 40:25 - Chopsticks and heat shield 44:30 - Starship unlocks Starlink 46:49 - Agentic traffic thousand times 48:09 - Starlink V3 bandwidth explosion 51:26 - Spectrum and telcos 52:43 - Satellite replacement cycle 53:17 - Laser links hundred times 53:55 - Competing with China power 55:37 - Space intelligence advantage 57:19 - Demand from superintelligence 58:02 - Universal high income future 1:00:43 - Legacy contribution

Grok Bot Summary - Elon Musk × Ron Baron Fireside Chat at 33rd Annual Baron Investment Conference SPACE X REVENUE / ARR • Tracking in excess of $100B annualized by December 2026 • “Unless there’s some sort of natural disaster… we will meet that target.” • Best guess: December 2027 ARR quite likely to exceed $500B (estimate, not a promise) STARLINK • 10× the capability of V3 (V3 itself was already ~10× V2), especially long-distance laser links • Next-gen laser links: 10 terabits per second each (100× better) • 10 laser links per satellite STARSHIP FLIGHT 15 • Will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage • If successful → first time all parts of an orbital rocket return intact • “Largest flying object ever made… you really want to watch this one” TERAFAB (AI CHIP FACTORY) • Built in phases (trillion-scale over time, capital not needed all upfront) • Research fab at Giga Texas, Austin • Main production site: Grimes County, Texas (near Texas A&M / Gibbons Creek area) • Scale target: roughly 30× next year’s entire global AI chip output SPACE COMPUTE / STARMIND • Computers co-designed with NVIDIA; first satellites ~Q3 2027 • Ramp in 2028, very large volume in 2029 • NVIDIA GPU and Google TPU satellites already “working fine in space” • Earth power grid cannot support ~200 GW/year of AI growth (~40% of the entire US grid every year — not feasible) • Space advantage: ~30% more solar power (no atmospheric attenuation) TESLA • Winding down Cybertruck production at Giga Texas around mid-2027 • Freeing capacity for much higher Cybercab / robotaxi production • Model Y is the best-selling EV in China HANDS-ON LEADERSHIP (MEMPHIS POWER PLANT / DATA CENTER) • Power plant built in ~1 year instead of the usual ~5 years • Elon walks the full site 2–5 times a day • Does physical work himself (pulling anaconda-sized power cables, fiber, electrical, software) • “I try to do a little of everything so I’m not numb to the pain of the people who are actually doing it” OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • SpaceX + Tesla = two best physical hardware companies on Earth outside China • Data centers bring real local prosperity (Memphis: full restaurants/hotels, ~2× wages, higher tax revenue, school support) — opposition is temporary • Spectrum: SpaceX can get very far with what it has acquired; could buy a legacy telco and use the spectrum ~10× more effectively • Timeline style: aims for 50th-percentile accuracy (press mostly reports only the late ones)

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