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5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“I think you would start off with simple tasks that you can count on them doing well.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…What will these first billion Optimuses, Optimi, do? What will their highest and best use be? I think you would start off with simple tasks that you can count on them doing well. But in the home or in factories?…
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