Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered some pretty eye-popping aspirations for the company during remarks on Saturday.Musk made a virtual appearance at the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley 2025 “Takeover” party in San Mateo,

Grok, the AI chatbot by Elon Musk’s company xAI, rolled out in Tesla vehicles earlier this month alongside a recent software update. Adapted to be controlled with your voice, GrokAI can’t currently control any vehicle functions.

Chief executive officer Elon Musk is doubling down on Tesla’s AI future, signing a $US16.5bn ($25.3 billion) deal with Samsung Electronics to build its next generation AI chips in the United States.

In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”

President Donald Trump recently addressed concerns that he might be targeting Elon Musk’s companies, such as Tesla and SpaceX, amid ongoing political tensions. Trump firmly denied these allegations, emphasizing that he wants Musk’s businesses to thrive.