Elon Musk on how Starlink grew from nothing into a global internet network. "If you've got a rocket that can fly a lot, what do you fly on it?" That question helped lead to Starlink. Musk says the Starlink team built a high-bandwidth global internet system from scratch, both the hardware and the software. Today, Starlink has nearly 11,000 satellites in orbit, more than twice as many as everyone else combined. And Musk believes Starlink could eventually handle more than 90% of global internet traffic. With Starlink V3 and beyond, the network could eventually scale to around 100,000 satellites. Building an entire internet network in space is an enormous challenge. But SpaceX is already doing it.

Elon Musk on the future of @Starlink and internet traffic. "Today, we're in 167 countries, with 22 million mobile subscribers and 13 million high-bandwidth subscribers." Musk expects those numbers to grow by more than 10× over time. But the bigger shift could come from AI. Musk referenced Cloudflare's projection that, based on current growth, AI traffic could eventually become 1,000× larger than human internet traffic within five years. Think about that for a moment. The internet of the future may not be dominated by humans talking to each other. It could be dominated by AI systems talking to AI systems.

Elon Musk on Starshield's growing role in national security. "Starshield has become a vital part of national security." Musk says SpaceX can't reveal too much about the program because of its highly sensitive nature. But he praised the Starshield team for their work and highlighted how important the system has become to America's national security. Another major milestone for SpaceX—this time beyond commercial spaceflight.

Elon Musk on the incredible scale of Starship. "Hard to believe that humans made such a thing. I think the future will look back and say, 'Not bad for a bunch of humans.'" Musk says Starship could completely transform humanity's ability to move mass into space. Today, humanity puts roughly 2,500 tonnes into orbit each year. With Starship, Musk believes that could rise to more than 1 million tonnes per year—and potentially approach 10 million tonnes. Those numbers sound almost impossible. But Musk says that's the kind of scale required to build a sustainable civilization on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. "If you can't deliver millions of tons to Earth orbit, you can't get the millions of tons you need to the Moon and Mars." He calls Starship arguably one of the hardest engineering projects humanity has ever attempted. And the team is pushing forward across engines, avionics, structures, and launch operations. The goal isn't just a bigger rocket. It's the infrastructure for a multiplanetary civilization. 🌍→🌙→🔴

Elon Musk on the future of SpaceXAI. "The future is fundamentally AI and robots." Musk says SpaceXAI's AI revenue could surpass all other SpaceX revenue as early as September. He expects AI revenue to become significantly larger than SpaceX's other businesses in Q4. That's why he says succeeding in AI—both hardware and software—is now vital to SpaceXAI's future. And Musk sees the long-term shift as much bigger than just AI becoming smarter. He believes digital intelligence could eventually become billions or even trillions of times greater than biological intelligence. The future, according to Musk, is AI, robots, and digital intelligence at an unimaginable scale.

Elon Musk on why AI should care about humanity. "It’s important that we have an AI that cares about humanity, fosters humanity, and helps take us to other planets and other star systems." Musk says this is why SpaceX needs to succeed in both AI hardware and software. He believes an AI built by SpaceX would inherit the capabilities and values of the people building it. "SpaceX is a collection of some of the very best humans on Earth." For Musk, the goal isn't just to build smarter AI. It's to build AI that helps humanity survive, explore, and become a multiplanetary civilization.

.@elonmusk on the future of energy and intelligence. "As you harness more and more of the Sun's energy, the ability to turn that into intelligence is fundamentally a digital computer thing." Musk points out how enormous the Sun's energy supply really is. Even if civilization increased its total energy use by 1 million times, it would still use far less than one-millionth of the Sun's energy. Most of that future energy use would likely happen in deep space. The bigger idea: Humanity's future may be about turning more of the Sun's enormous energy supply into computation, AI, and intelligence. From solar energy to digital intelligence.

Elon Musk on the future of SpaceXAI. "The future is fundamentally AI and robots." Musk says SpaceXAI's AI revenue could surpass all other SpaceX revenue as early as September. He expects AI revenue to become significantly larger than SpaceX's other businesses in Q4. That's why he says succeeding in AI—both hardware and software—is now vital to SpaceXAI's future. And Musk sees the long-term shift as much bigger than just AI becoming smarter. He believes digital intelligence could eventually become billions or even trillions of times greater than biological intelligence. The future, according to Musk, is AI, robots, and digital intelligence at an unimaginable scale.

Elon Musk on the incredible scale of Starship. "Hard to believe that humans made such a thing. I think the future will look back and say, 'Not bad for a bunch of humans.'" Musk says Starship could completely transform humanity's ability to move mass into space. Today, humanity puts roughly 2,500 tonnes into orbit each year. With Starship, Musk believes that could rise to more than 1 million tonnes per year—and potentially approach 10 million tonnes. Those numbers sound almost impossible. But Musk says that's the kind of scale required to build a sustainable civilization on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. "If you can't deliver millions of tons to Earth orbit, you can't get the millions of tons you need to the Moon and Mars." He calls Starship arguably one of the hardest engineering projects humanity has ever attempted. And the team is pushing forward across engines, avionics, structures, and launch operations. The goal isn't just a bigger rocket. It's the infrastructure for a multiplanetary civilization. 🌍→🌙→🔴

Elon Musk on Starshield's growing role in national security. "Starshield has become a vital part of national security." Musk says SpaceX can't reveal too much about the program because of its highly sensitive nature. But he praised the Starshield team for their work and highlighted how important the system has become to America's national security. Another major milestone for SpaceX—this time beyond commercial spaceflight.

Elon Musk on the future of @Starlink and internet traffic. "Today, we're in 167 countries, with 22 million mobile subscribers and 13 million high-bandwidth subscribers." Musk expects those numbers to grow by more than 10× over time. But the bigger shift could come from AI. Musk referenced Cloudflare's projection that, based on current growth, AI traffic could eventually become 1,000× larger than human internet traffic within five years. Think about that for a moment. The internet of the future may not be dominated by humans talking to each other. It could be dominated by AI systems talking to AI systems.

Elon Musk on how Starlink grew from nothing into a global internet network. "If you've got a rocket that can fly a lot, what do you fly on it?" That question helped lead to Starlink. Musk says the Starlink team built a high-bandwidth global internet system from scratch, both the hardware and the software. Today, Starlink has nearly 11,000 satellites in orbit, more than twice as many as everyone else combined. And Musk believes Starlink could eventually handle more than 90% of global internet traffic. With Starlink V3 and beyond, the network could eventually scale to around 100,000 satellites. Building an entire internet network in space is an enormous challenge. But SpaceX is already doing it.

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Elon Musk reveals why he launched his Tesla Roadster into space. "I fully expected this flight to fail." Musk was talking about Falcon Heavy's first flight. Since he thought the rocket might fail, he didn't want to put something boring on top of it. Instead, SpaceX launched his personal Tesla Roadster with Starman sitting in the driver's seat. The car is now traveling in an orbit that takes it between Earth and Mars. And according to Musk, it could remain up there for around 10 million years. Imagine taking your everyday car and accidentally turning it into a piece of space history.

Elon Musk reflects on how difficult SpaceX's journey really was. "When we started SpaceX, we really had no idea how to make rockets." Falcon 1 failed three times before finally reaching orbit. Then came an even bigger challenge: landing and re-flying an orbital booster. Musk says many aerospace experts told him it wouldn't work—and even if it did, nobody would want to fly on a used rocket. But SpaceX kept going. Today, Falcon 9 boosters take off, land, and get recovered every few days. SpaceX also went on to build Falcon Heavy, once the world's most powerful operational rocket, and is now approaching its 700th Falcon flight. From blowing up rockets to routinely landing and reusing them. That's what years of iteration look like.

Elon Musk on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. Dragon became the first privately developed spacecraft to reach and communicate with the International Space Station. It also became the first commercial spacecraft to carry astronauts. Since then, Dragon has flown dozens of missions, including crewed flights and asteroid missions. So far, SpaceX says Dragon has carried 78 crew members. Musk believes it won't be long before that number passes 100. "Dragon has been an amazing vehicle." A huge milestone for commercial spaceflight—and another chapter in SpaceX's journey.

Elon Musk looking back at SpaceX's early days: 🚀 "All of SpaceX in the beginning was just a small warehouse in El Segundo." From a tiny warehouse to one of the world's most ambitious space companies. A powerful reminder that massive companies can start from surprisingly humble beginnings.