— along with the rest of the truck, too. He’s got a 40-minute video out this morning taking Tesla’s new vehicle for a spin and offering some first impressions.
And yeah, he knows what we’re interested in.
The company is working with Amkor to have Apple Silicon chips tested and packaged in Arizona, not far from the TSMC plant in Phoenix where some of the chips are being produced.
Spotify had a bunch of artists record videos to their fans for its year-end Wrapped lists. Weird Al used his to joke about Spotify payouts from right inside Spotify’s platform.
“I’ve got a lot of fish to fry,” he said.
“I think there’s a fundamental challenge that phone makers have at this point,” Musk said, “because you’ve got basically a black rectangle, how do you make that better?”
“It should be renamed Super Closed Source for Maximum Profit AI. This is what it actually is,” he said. Musk co-founded it as a nonprofit and says its name is meant to reference open source. “I don’t know how you go from here to there, but that seems ... is this legal?”
Once again, we’re finding that definition matters when talking about AI intelligence. But if you’re talking about AI that can “write as good a novel as J.K. Rowling or discover new physics or invent new technology, I would say we’re less than three years from that point,” Musk says.
At the DealBook event, Musk tried to clarify his comments on Jewish activist groups, but I’m not sure it came across quite as he hoped — still casting blame on Jewish activists and other persecuted groups with broad and generalized accusations.
He said there are activist groups across the US who are supporting Hamas, and “a number of those organizations received funding from people in the Jewish community.” He said the problem was that they supported “persecuted groups in general” and that some of those groups “unfortunately want your annihilation.”
“Perhaps you should not fund them,” he said.
Musk says the advertiser boycott could be X’s downfall. He seems somewhere between resigned and mad.
“That will be what bankrupts the company and that is what everybody on Earth will know,” Musk said.
He gave a shoutout to Bob Iger during his “go fuck yourself” bit.
Here’s Musk responding onstage at DealBook:
I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what i meant. But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic. And for that I’m quite sorry, that was not my intention.
He later called it, “One of the most foolish — if not the most foolish — thing I’ve done on the platform.”
Of course, when it comes to how Musk feels about the advertiser boycott in response, he isn’t so willing to acknowledge his role in the matter.