In a fight over how much he gets paid, Elon Musk said on Monday that he might stop working on some of Tesla’s most important projects. The rich man said on Twitter that he’s “uncomfortable” working at the company on AI and robots projects until he has more money in the company. Musk, who has a 13% stake in the company, said he would “build products outside of Tesla” if his stake doesn’t rise to 25%.
“I don’t feel comfortable building Tesla into a leader in AI and robotics without having about 25% of the votes.” “Enough to have an effect, but not so much that I can’t be changed,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Monday. “If that’s not the case, I’d rather work on products outside of Tesla.”
Because he said he was going to buy Twitter but then changed his mind, Musk’s share of the company has been going down since he had to buy it. Even for the richest person in the world, the $44 billion price tag was a lot. Musk sold billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock before and after he took over the platform to help pay for it. Still, Musk owns one of the biggest shares of the car company as a person.
AI is already a big part of Tesla’s business, and Musk thinks it will grow to be even bigger than the cars the company makes. A clear example is Tesla’s level 2 driver assistance system, which was wrongly named “full self driving mode” (the company now says it’s not really fully self driving after legal threats). However, if you believe the moody Musk, robots could play a bigger role in the future of the company.
Musk shared a video of Tesla’s new humanoid robot Optimus folding a shirt in a way that it clearly can’t do on its own, hours before he made threats against his own company. When Musk famously made a guy walk around in a spandex suit pretending to be a robot in 2021, the world got its first glimpse of Optimus. But the billionaire showed at least that the robot is real the next year, when the robot made its debut and was seen wandering around a stage while drunk, being watched by a group of employees who looked scared it would fall over. Musk says that Optimus “ultimately will be worth more than the car business and worth more than full self-driving.” Don’t let that scare you away.
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Musk has a huge following on X/Twitter, and most of them seem to agree with the billionaire about Tesla’s future. There are more and more worries about the “wokeness” of AI in the Neolibertarian Twitter movement that Musk leads online. One of Musk’s robots won’t agree with the CEO and many of his followers on extreme issues like transgender people’s rights. This worries the CEO and many of his followers. Musk spent Monday afternoon on X going back and forth with fans who were afraid that AI would kill the world if he didn’t get more control over Tesla.
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