Elon Musk: Mars by 2026, humanity's output eclipsed by AI in 2028
In a conversation with XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis, Musk laid out what he sees coming from the rising force of AI, while laying out a timeframe for SpaceX's first unmanned and manned Mars missions, and lots more.
It's certainly been a wild couple of months for the world's richest (known) human. SpaceX, of course, made a spectacular world-first, catching Starship's massive Super Heavy booster with "Mechazilla" chopstick arms built into the launch tower, clearing the path for the biggest space launch vehicle in history to start coming straight down from orbit, and land pretty much stacked right up on top of its booster, ready to launch again within hours.
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This will revolutionize the space industry (again), crash per-weight launch prices (again), and it also lays the foundation for Musk's ultimate lifetime goal of getting a sustainable human colony built on Mars.
Tesla's Cybercab/Robovan launch was an entertaining dog 'n' pony show in comparison, but set out the company's plans for fully autonomous robotaxis in detail. Neuralink wired up its second brain implant patient, Alex, who has been using the chip to play video games and operate CAD software hands-free.
Meanwhile, X Ai stood up the world's most powerful AI training supercomputer cluster, Colossus, building all the infrastructure and wiring up 100,000 nVidia H100 GPUs in a ludicrous 122 days start to finish. The company now has more GPUs at its disposal than Google AI, OpenAI, Meta AI, Microsoft or nVidia itself – and Musk says it'll have double the processing power within a few months thanks to 50,000 additional H200 GPUs.
Jensen Huang says building xAI's computing supercluster in just 19 days, from concept to training, was a "superhuman" effort and the only person in the world who could have done it is Elon Musk