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Elon Musk on Elon Musk Thinking

Latest Interview of Elon Musk's with Peter Diamandis! Optimus is coming...

Mar 12, 2026 · 24 min

The concrete Optimus 3 update and personal case for robot-delivered medicine are worthwhile, but the broader abundance, deflation, post-money, and solar-scale arguments recur throughout the corpus. Selective listening is preferable to a full-episode commitment.

Well, we're in the file stages of completion of Optimist three, which is really going to be by far the most advanced robot in the world. Nothing's even close. In fact, I haven't even sent any seen any demos of robots that are as good as Optimist three. Frankly, maybe they're out there or their secret or something. I don't know, but you know, and I have to make sure I'm saying things that are reasonably public as well.
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Elon Musk discusses recursive AI improvement, the scale of future intelligence, and his prediction of roughly tenfold economic growth in ten years absent a major disruption. He also outlines Optimus production expectations and argues that AI and robotics could bring universal high income, reduce the relevance of money, and improve access to medical care.