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Published · transcript-backedElon Musk: prediction
5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“Meaning, five years from now, my prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…And in space? I deliberately pick five years because it’s after your “once we’re up and running” threshold. So in five years time what’s the on-Earth versus in-space installed AI capacity? If you say five years from now, I think probably AI in space will be launching every year the sum total of all AI on Earth. Meaning, five years from now, my prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth. Which is...…
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