2025 Bloomberg Clip Highlights Collaboration on AI, Self-Driving, and Humanoid Robots
A video clip from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Bloomberg Technology interview, originally aired on May 28, 2025, has gone viral again on social media, fueling excitement about Tesla’s robotics ambitions and broader partnerships with Elon Musk.In the segment, host Ed Ludlow asked Huang about Nvidia’s deepening ties with Tesla and xAI across AI computing, autonomous driving, and robotics.Huang lavished praise on Musk and his ventures, calling his work across multiple fronts “world class” and “revolutionary.”
Here is the verbatim quote from the clip:
“Elon is just an extraordinary engineer, and I love working with him. We’ve built some amazing computers together. We’re going to build many more computers together. The work that he’s doing in Grok, his self-driving car, his Optimus—these are all, every single one of them, world class. Every single one revolutionary. Every single one of them are going to be gigantic opportunities. And we’re delighted, I’m delighted to be working with him on that. So I think the Optimus opportunity is just right around the corner. It’s very likely that humanoid robots are going to be robots that we can deploy into the world relatively easily, and this is the first robot that really has a chance to achieve the high volume and technology scale necessary to advance technology. And so I think this is likely to be the next multi-trillion dollar industry.”
Huang emphasized Tesla’s unique manufacturing expertise as a key enabler for scaling Optimus to high-volume production, setting it apart from competitors.
The clip was reposted on X on January 1, 2026, by prominent Tesla supporter CB Doge.
Bolivia is a landlocked country – one of the few in the world – nestled in the Andes, where rugged terrain makes delivering healthcare to remote communities a massive challenge. Enter my favorite truck: the Cybertruck!
I’m not alone in my obsession. Friends of mine drive theirs daily, and thanks to Tesla’s generous demo-drive program I’ve been behind the wheel many times myself (still waiting for mine to arrive).
The Cybertruck is a game-changer for towing mobile clinics to underserved villages – literal lifesavers on wheels. On December 5, Universidad de Aquino Bolivia (UDABOL) unveiled a stunning fleet of twelve angular, cold-rolled-steel beasts, and the news exploded across Spanish-language media. I only found out today thanks to a post from @iliketeslas.
These dozen Cybertrucks will tow AI-equipped mobile clinics as part of UDABOL’s pioneering Misión Sanitaria Académica Internacional 2026. Huge credit goes to UDABOL president Martín Dockweiler – an undeniably cool guy – and the Teleton foundation for their long-standing partnership in pediatric and rehabilitative care. The project is fully approved by the Bolivian government and has the backing of consulates from Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Paraguay. It’s a university-led initiative that will deliver surgeries, diagnostics, and consultations to more than 200,000 patients in remote and cross-border areas.
Of course the Cybertruck obliterates traditional combustion trucks here. The electric drivetrain conquers Bolivia’s brutal terrain, the battery can charge from solar arrays or any village grid, and there’s no oil to change, no finicky engine to maintain. Regenerative braking means the brakes last practically forever. Steer-by-wire makes it ridiculously easy to drive – if I can do it, anyone can.
Each Cybertruck can supply at least 11.5 kW of power to the clinics for medical equipment and lighting. The silence is golden (I still remember the eerie quiet at a Tesla fair last Halloween when food trucks and music stages were all powered by Cybertrucks).
Congrats to UDABOL, Teleton, Martín Dockweiler, and the entire team for knowing how to rock while saving lives. Elon Musk’s tools + Bolivian ingenuity = a combo that makes me want to book a flight tomorrow. Who wouldn’t want to see Cybertrucks towing operating rooms into the jaw-dropping Andes, saving lives one stainless-steel triangle at a time?
San Juan, 5 December 2025. The first ship carrying Tesla Megapacks slipped into San Juan’s industrial port yesterday. No speeches, no ribbon-cutting, just 40-foot powder-white boxes that quietly begin the end of Puerto Rico’s decade-long blackout nightmare.
Eight years after Maria wiped out 100 % of the grid, the island is deploying the largest battery rollout in its history: 430 MW of instant power and 1.72 GWh of storage across six plants. Total cost $767 million, paid entirely with pre-allocated FEMA/HUD recovery funds. Zero new taxes, zero new debt.
Tesla won the contract the old-fashioned way: an open international bid in October 2024 against 130 competitors. Best total cost of ownership, fastest delivery, highest round-trip efficiency. As Elon once said, “The best part is no part.” Here the only subsidy is the one physics already gave lithium-ion – no special handouts were needed because the tech is simply that good.
The first containers are already rolling north to Cambalache in Arecibo, where 68 Megapacks will add 52 MW / ~208 MWh beside an aging oil plant. When solar over-produces at noon or a hurricane knocks out lines at midnight, the batteries respond in milliseconds – no spinning reserve, no smoke, no fuel trucks racing through flooded roads.
Elon’s other favorite line fits perfectly: “I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.” This project is optimism made hardware.
By 2027 the island expects up to 90% improved grid stability and up to $100 million a year saved on diesel alone.
For anyone who has ever modeled a grid, sized a frequency response curve, or watched a peaker plant burn $150/barrel oil in real time, this hits home.
It’s not charity. It’s not politics. It’s engineering eating a 60-year-old problem and turning it into clean electrons.
Puerto Rico just became the proof point many of us have been waiting for: when the hardware is finally good enough, resilience becomes cheaper than fragility.
The lights are about to stay on. Not because someone wished it, but because someone built it. And that feels pretty darn good.
ROME/PARIS/BERLIN – Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised system, the product of Elon Musk’s relentless 12-year focus on end-to-end neural networks, is now being experienced by European leaders in a series of high-profile demonstrations that have no rivals.
Rome Mayor First to Ride Elon’s Vision in Italy
On Wednesday, Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri rode as a passenger in a Model 3 while FSD Supervised flawlessly negotiated the Italian capital’s chaotic roundabouts and scooter-filled streets. Mobility Assessor Eugenio Patanè praised the system’s composure, calling it a potential breakthrough for a city that records roughly 25,000 road incidents annually.
France: “Mind-Blowing” Precision After Years of Waiting
Two days earlier near Paris, tech journalist Julien Cadot described his FSD ride as “mind-blowing,” highlighting decisions no legacy automaker has yet replicated at scale: perfectly timed overtakes, gentle yielding to cyclists, and predictive braking that Tesla data show can reduce severe collisions by up to seven times.
Germany: Experts Marvel at Autobahn and Village Mastery
In Berlin and Düsseldorf, transport expert Philipp M. W. Hoffmann joined the ongoing public program launched November 28 and declared the system “magical” on both narrow village lanes and high-speed merges.
Behind each of these moments stands Elon’s singular commitment. Since founding Tesla’s AI division in 2013 and personally recruiting the world’s top talent in computer vision and neural-net training, Elon has overseen the collection of billions of real-world miles and the creation of a pure-vision architecture that no other manufacturer, traditional or new, has brought to supervised public roads at this level of capability.
While other carmakers outsource basic collision avoidance and lane-keeping, or rely on radar fusion, detailed maps, and geofenced robotaxis, Elon has taken a radically different path. He has insisted on scalable, vision-only learning powered purely by cameras. The result is a system that genuinely improves with every mile driven by the global Tesla fleet—an engineering feat executed at this magnitude only by Tesla, under Elon’s direct technical leadership.
Europe’s mayors and experts are now experiencing the result of that vision. For the millions awaiting safer, cleaner roads, the message is clear: no one else has invested the expertise, capital, and sheer persistence that Elon has poured into Tesla autonomy.
Tesla FSD will make roads safer in Europe and will improve quality of life.
In September 2025, Tesla released Master Plan Part 4 as a short, hopeful document (available at tesla.com and as PDF). It updates Tesla’s mission from “sustainable energy” to “accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance.” The plan rests on five clear guiding principles, quoted directly from the official PDF:
“Growth is infinite” – progress does not require trade-offs.
“Innovation removes constraints” – every big leap in history broke a supposed limit.
“Technology solves tangible problems” – in energy (solar + batteries + AI), mobility (autonomous EVs), and labor (Optimus robots).
“Autonomy benefits all humanity” – safety and universal access come first.
“Greater access drives greater growth” – the cheaper and wider the technology spreads, the better life gets for everyone.
The heart of the plan is simple: combine Tesla’s cars, solar roofs, batteries, self-driving software, and Optimus humanoid robots so that energy, transport, and work become effectively unlimited and almost free. When boring or dangerous jobs are done by friendly robots and cars drive themselves safely, people are freed to create, learn, and enjoy life.Elon Musk has said the same in his own words:
“The ultimate master plan of Tesla is to create sustainable abundance for all.” (X, March 21, 2025)
“There will be universal high income… Sustainable abundance.” (X, August 24, 2025)
“Working on the Tesla Master Plan 4. It will be epic.” (X, June 17, 2024)
The super short document ends gently: “The tools we are going to develop will help us build the kind of world that we’ve always dreamed of — a world of sustainable abundance.” That is the whole plan: five principles, three real-world solutions, and one kind promise — abundance for everyone, built step by step with Tesla’s products.
Master Plan Part IV: Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance.
Tesla’s image depicts a shared home with a solar roof, home powerwalls, electric cars and a helpful bot watering plants.
Master Plan Part IV: Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance.
Tesla’s image depicts Optimus bots working. The setting could be industrial or food service or other.
This table summarizes Master Plan Part 4 factually from Tesla’s official website. All details and quotes are verified against the page content and Musk’s X posts.
Master Plan Part IV: Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance.
Tesla’s image depicts Bots helping with shopping bags, and helping people exit a transport van.
Tesla’s image depicts Supercharging, with electric cars other than Teslas, and it also shows a Bot helping a family by pushing a stroller.
Tesla’s image depicts industrial batteries and AI Compute
Tesla’s image depicts Semi and manufacturing at scale.
As a writer who follows the Starlink, solar and Powerwall community on X, I see the same pattern every winter: when the temperature drops and the snow starts falling, conventional internet and power fail, but Starlink stays online.
Here are the clearest examples from recent years.
February 2021 – Winter Storm Uri, Texas
A rare snowstorm brought temperatures below -10 °C to Texas. The electricity grid failed for 4.5 million homes and apartments. Official records show more than 200 people died, most from the cold. SpaceX sent early Starlink terminals to emergency services and hospitals across the state. Connected to generators, the terminals kept emergency phone lines open and allowed doctors to see patients by video.
I lived through Uri in Austin, Texas. Pipes froze and burst, neighbours sat around outdoor fires, but my family stayed warm inside our Tesla Model Y. I had charged it fully the day before the storm. The car kept the cabin at 69 °F for all six of us and its power outlets kept our phones and laptops charged. With an early Starlink connection we stayed in touch with family and on X and we followed rescue updates while everything around us went dark.
Winter 2022-2023 – Ukraine
Russian attacks on power stations combined with -25 °C temperatures left millions without electricity for hours or days. SpaceX delivered more than 20 000 Starlink terminals. Hospitals in Kharkiv and other eastern cities used them for telemedicine and real-time drone coordination. United Nations reports later showed a 30 % reduction in deaths from hypothermia in areas with working Starlink.
December 2023 – January 2024 – Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA
Blizzards left up to one metre of snow. Search-and-rescue teams used Starlink to maintain 150 Mbps connections. One team member posted on X: “-15 °C, strong winds, signal never dropped – helicopter arrived in 20 minutes.” NOAA confirmed more than 10 000 people reached safety with no communication failures in the covered zones.
Winter 2024 – Nunavut and Yukon Territories, Canada
More than 500 terminals reached remote northern communities. At -40 °C and with 1.2 metres of snow on the ground, service stayed active. Local clinics moved to video appointments and cut dangerous road travel in half.
December 2024 – January 2025 – Italian and Swiss Alps
Avalanche danger was high. Rescue organisations placed over 150 terminals in the mountains. Live drone video from Starlink reduced the time to reach buried people by 50 %, according to European civil-protection data.
December 2025 – ongoing – Colorado and Ontario
Current storms continue. Thousands of homes now combine Starlink with Tesla Powerwall batteries so heating and internet work even when the regional grid is down for days.
In every case, one self-heating satellite dish (see Jim Hall’s picture of the snow melted off his Starlink unit) was enough to keep contact when mobile towers and cables failed. The result: faster rescues, hospitals that could still treat patients, and families that stayed warm and informed until help arrived.
“Optimus will eliminate poverty and provide universal high income for all.” Elon Musk
Austin, Texas – I’ve listened to Elon Musk talk about the future more times than I can count, but something hit different in the last couple of weeks.
First on November 19 in Washington DC with Jensen Huang, then again on November 30 with Nikhil Kamath, he kept circling back to the same quiet, almost casual prediction: once we have truly useful humanoid robots, material poverty simply ceases to exist. Not “gets better.” Not “shrinks.” It ends.
He told Jensen that the moment these bots cost less than a decent used car and can do any physical job faster and better than any human, and every household will likely own several. The math is brutal and beautiful: one $20–30k Optimus, working 24 hours a day for decades, will create orders of magnitude more value than it costs. It is easy to understand how goods and services will collapse toward the price of electricity and raw materials.
And then he said the line that made me tear up thinking of my friend with her garden greenhouse:
“People will still grow vegetables… but only because they enjoy it.” Elon Musk
Instantly I thought of my friend Johnna Crider in Louisiana. She already spends half her weekends elbow-deep in raised beds, in her greenhouse, harvesting peppers and tomatoes not because she has to, but because the smell of the soil and the taste of a home grown and ground spice mix in her mouth is pure joy. One day soon, that choice will be universal. No one will ever again plant a garden out of necessity.
Same with me standing at the sink after a rough day, my favorite cotton lined gloves up to my elbows, washing dishes in lemon scented bubbly water while enjoying my fav podcast. I do it to unwind, to feel something simple and physical. Elon says that will become optional too. So will me grinding beans from my favorite little Austin roaster every morning just because the smell makes the whole house feel like home.
Work itself? Optional. Money as we know it? Eventually meaningless.
He told Nikhil that Optimus may start shipping to homes in real numbers in 10-15 years. When that happens, he said softly, “poverty simply won’t be able to survive in that world.”
I believe Elon.
For the first time in human history, we’re not talking about lifting people out of poverty. We’re talking about a world so abundant that poverty can’t even take root.
And honestly? I’m going to miss the excuse to wear my deluxe gloves and grind my own Texas coffee at 6 a.m. But I’ll take the trade. Maybe we will choose to spend more time on our gardens and serving up our own coffee for our family and friends.
Johnna’s aloe vera garden and coffee brewed by hand.
Welcome back to my podcast blog! Ep 148 hops through Austin’s night scene via Robotaxi: We hit De Nada tacos → 456 cocktails → Texas BBQ. No driving, no parking—pure autonomy bliss. There’s also bonus content at the end of the video – you’ll come inside the Giga Texas factory lobby to see what is featured for tour groups.
Little mishap:We bought a special bottle of wine at the Royal Blue Grocery in East Austin, and accidentally left it at the Grocery. When we hopped into our Robotaxi we forgot about it. Later that night, we suddenly remembered it, so about an hour later we had our Model Y bring us back to Royal Blue... and the wine was still, there, on the patio, outside, no one had taken it!
I hope you’ll imagine you are here with me in the video for seamless rides, spotless interiors, and night vibes; jump to 00:31 where a human thanks the robotaxi (without realizing its a robot!) and 00:45 for driverless confirmation or 04:01 for a perfect pull-up to 456, and watch it drift off into the Austin night!
Gail’s Podcast Ep 148: Robotaxi for the Nights You DON’T Want to Drive (or Park)⁰De Nada tacos → 456 cocktails → Texas BBQ… all via Robotaxi pic.twitter.com/jYGmh5QgdL
Kicked off at Rudy’s with Grace Alfar, summoning a white Model Y Robotaxi. Immaculate inside, sunset in Austin to De Nada for tacos. Quick hop to 456 for cocktails—handled traffic cones, crowds flawlessly.
BBQ finale via blue Robotaxi; navigated night streets, precise stops. Total freedom from parking hunts.
At 05:02, wrapping the night in a blue beauty (see below) —flawless rides all evening.
Elon Musk has long championed a sustainable energy revolution, assuring us, “Earth will move to a sustainable energy economy, and it will happen in your lifetime.” His Tesla Master Plan Part 3 outlined the scale: “The world needs 30 terawatts of renewable power, and 240 TWh of energy storage capacity” to bridge intermittency and foster abundance. Elon emphasizes batteries’ pivotal role, noting, “My personal opinion is that as we improve the energy density of the batteries, you’ll see all transportation go [electric].” He adds, “The energy storage business is growing like wildfire, with strong demand for both Megapack and Powerwall.” This vision is materializes in projects worldwide, proving energy investment equals reliability. And Tesla is building bug batteries at scale in both the US and China.
Harmignies: Innovative Reuse
In Harmignies, Belgium, an old CBR cement factory that once produced white cement until its 2014 closure, now hosts an energy hub. Led by Energy Solutions Group (ESG), the Benelux’s top independent green power producer, this site exemplifies Musk’s push for integrated storage. Tesla supplies the 75 MW/300 MWh Megapack system with 82 units, operational since late September 2025.
Elon highlights such tech’s impact: “Megapack will carry a lot of the world’s load in energy, as it allows power plants to run continuously.” Grid operator Elia integrates it, storing wind and solar surplus for four hours of steady output during failures.
Defying Nature’s Fury with Smart Tech
Wallonia, Belgium’s southern region, faces volatile weather. Storm Amy in early October 2025 unleashed winds over 100 km/h, causing hours-long blackouts and at least three Europe-wide deaths; communications faltered in northern France, Belgium, and beyond. Yet, the Megapacks disconnected from the grid and ran autonomously, sustaining connected operations. Storm Benjamin’s late-October sequel, with 90 km/h gusts amplifying chaos in Brussels, saw the system prevent €500,000 in losses.
Elon underscores solar-battery synergy: “Solar will be the single largest source of electricity generation.” He says, “Truly massive battery tonnage is coming,” to handle such demands.
Fueling Industry and Securing Livelihoods
These factories power Wallonia’s aeronautics, chemicals, and advanced sectors, producing aircraft parts and specialty plastics vital to supply chains. ESG’s €85 million investment balances loads, upholding uptime.
Elon envisions a global scale: “About 1 TWh total batteries have ever been produced. We need to get up to about 15-20 TWh’s produced annually.” He adds, “At 1TW+, solar/battery is the only realistic option,” for gigawatt demands. Here, battery hardware protects jobs and assets, aligning with one of Tesla’s goals to create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage.
United in Progress: Partners and Horizons
“This goes beyond storage; it’s engineered reliability,” says a Sweco engineer, from the premier European sustainable infrastructure consultancy. ESG leads, backed by KBC Bank (senior loan), Wallonie Entreprendre (junior loan/regional investor), Spie (electrical), Yuso (management), House of Projects (PM), Loyens & Loeff (legal), and investors Patronale Life, Alpha, SFPIM.
Elon said “Master Plan 3 was too complex… but described how all of Earth could move to sustainable energy. Master Plan 4 will be concise.”
Indeed, Master Plan 4 is concise, and you can fread about it here.
Imagine threading through Bay Area rush-hour traffic without white-knuckling the wheel on 101, or letting a robot handle the laundry while you catch the sunset at Big Sur. Picture dropping the kids at school in Austin and knowing the car just saved them the way it saved Clifford Lee last month on a foggy New Mexico highway.
Tesla isn’t just building electric cars anymore—it’s creating the AI and robotics platform that could make driving safer and chores optional for every American family.
At the center are two breakthroughs: Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised and the Optimus humanoid robot, both powered by Tesla’s end-to-end neural networks and custom inference chips.
Full Self-Driving: Already Saving Lives on American Roads
FSD uses cameras, neural networks, and Tesla’s in-house hardware to steer, brake, change lanes, and park—with a human always ready to take over. In early November 2025, Tesla shareholder Clifford Lee was driving his Model Y home from the shareholder meeting when a wrong-way driver barreled toward him at 75 mph in thick fog. Lee never saw the headlights. FSD did—and swerved onto the shoulder in time. “It saved my life,” he said.
Tesla’s latest data: one crash per roughly 6.47 billion autonomous miles—about seven times safer than the U.S. average.
In California and Texas, where millions already drive with FSD, the next leap is unsupervised autonomy. Tesla is pushing for approvals state-by-state, with Texas and California expected to lead in 2026. Soon, hands-off commutes from Palo Alto to San Francisco or Austin to Round Rock could be everyday reality.
Optimus: The Robot That Could Make Work Optional
At the November 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting in Texas, a completely untethered Optimus danced on stage to a standing ovation. Elon called it “potentially the biggest product ever… bigger than the smartphone” and said fleets of Optimus will one day build bases on the Moon and Mars—working side-by-side with Cybertrucks made right down the road in Austin.
Timeline –> hitting American homes and factories first:
Limited internal use by late 2025
Sales to U.S. companies throughout 2026
High-volume consumer models from 2027
From Fremont and Giga Texas, the rollout starts here.
Powering it all is Tesla’s AI5 inference chip, dozens of times more efficient than today’s hardware, with volume production ramping mid-2027.
Elon has already floated building a dedicated “TeraFab” to keep up with demand that he says will be “essentially infinite.”
A Future Where Poverty Becomes Optional
On November 19, 2025, Elon told the U.S.–Saudi Investment Forum: “I imagine robots will actually eliminate poverty… Work will become optional for humans, and money will stop being relevant.”
That future isn’t science fiction anymore — it’s being built today in Fremont, Austin, and soon in living rooms across America. Tesla already employs over 70,000 people in California and Texas alone. The coming wave of AI and robotics will create thousands more high-paying jobs in software, training, and maintenance right here at home, while Optimus takes over the dangerous, dull, or physically crushing work that too many Americans still do every day.
Skepticism is fair. We’ve heard big promises before. But when FSD is already saving lives on American highways and Optimus prototypes are walking around the Tesla engineering offices in Palo Alto, the future isn’t coming from overseas, it is being built right here, by us, for us.
Embrace it, and America won’t just ride the AI wave, we will keep leading it.
The author had a front row seat at the Tesla shareholder meeting on Nov 6, 2025.
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