What is X optimizing for?
“Maximizing for long-term unregretted user seconds…”
— Elon Musk, 1 November 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Subjects / Media
Media
30 answers
Where do you get your information? Is most of it from social media or do you have sources of information?
“I look at Google News, which is a summation of headlines. I look at the Xplatform, which if something's important enough, it'll it'll show up on the X platform.”
— Elon Musk, 20 October 2026 · Watch: Elon Musk: "Humans Won't Be in Control" When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us · 30:25 ↗ · In the archive
Will all cars be electric?
“Major threshold passed. Almost all cars will be electric in the future.”
— Elon Musk, 15 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
What is xAI / Grok's goal and how will it compete?
“Never seen anything grow as fast as @Grok @Bot! And there is no free tier, which means people are deriving real value in excess of what they pay. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.”
— Elon Musk, 15 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Why do you post on X instead of doing press releases?
“CEOs & execs posting to the public directly on 𝕏 is the best way to get your message out and drive product sales. Vastly more powerful and effective than a press release.”
— Elon Musk, 13 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Can people trust information (Grokipedia, Community Notes)?
“We’re just going to have @Grok Bots manage Grokipedia”
— Elon Musk, 9 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Who deserves the credit for what you've done?
“Thank you on behalf of the amazing people of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and Boring Company, without whom anything I have done would have been impossible…”
— Elon Musk, 8 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Can Starlink save lives?
“Also, Starlink has proven to be essential for saving lives during natural disasters throughout the world, when all other communications systems have failed, so you would also be helping save men, women and children throughout India. 🇮🇳 Starlink saves lives during natural disasters… Starlink brings Internet access to remote places…”
— Elon Musk, 8 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Can people trust information (Grokipedia, Community Notes)?
“Grokipedia v0.3 just released. Join @spacexai if you want to create Encyclopedia Galactica!”
— Elon Musk, 1 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Why is the legacy media against you / is it dying?
“The public does not trust the legacy mainstream media for good reason”
— Elon Musk, 23 July 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Why is the legacy media against you / is it dying?
“Legacy medias lies both by promoting false stories and by ignoring true ones”
— Elon Musk, 2 June 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Why is the legacy media against you / is it dying?
“Exactly. Legacy media is a propaganda arm of the far left.”
— Elon Musk, 13 March 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Can people trust information (Grokipedia, Community Notes)?
“We are adding @CommunityNotes functionality to @Grokipedia to make accurate modification by people possible”
— Elon Musk, 22 February 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Can people trust information (Grokipedia, Community Notes)?
“Grokipedia is growing like kelp on steroids 😂 Please check articles you know something about and suggest edits for accuracy. Would be much appreciated. This will be by far most comprehensive open source, no copyright distillation of knowledge.”
— Elon Musk, 16 February 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When will AI be smarter than any human (AGI/ASI)?
“Capable of doing anything a human with a computer can do, but not smarter than all humans and computers combined. That’s probably three to five years away. Grok 5 will be better at AI engineering (called “research” by the pompous) than @karpathy, for example.”
— Elon Musk, 18 October 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
What do you think of the New York Times?
“It’s not worth lining a parrot cage with NY Times, let alone reading it”
— Elon Musk, 20 September 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When will AI be smarter than humans?
“AI is already much smarter than most humans, just not yet smarter than any human at anything… But it will be. Probably smarter than any single human at anything in <2 years and smarter than all humans combined in ~5 years.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When are we going to see Grok 3 and what capabilities can we expect?
“…grock 3 is outperforming anything that's been released that we're aware of…”
— Elon Musk, 13 February 2025 · Watch: LIVE: Elon Musk speaks at Dubai's World Governments Summit · 13:41 ↗ · In the archive
What do you think of legacy media?
“You are the media now. They are the past.”
— Elon Musk, 9 December 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
What do you make of legacy media coverage of Tesla, X and you?
“Well, to be fair, the legacy media sometimes attack other “billionaires” 😂 But, yeah, it is weird. Maybe I just get a lot of clicks? The legacy media is a click-maximizing machine, rather than a truth-maximizing machine.”
— Elon Musk, 20 May 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Interview: where news should come from
“…you want your information be coming at you from people who are experts in the field or who are in the case of, let's say, a war zone, literally in the field.”
— Elon Musk, 21 December 2023 · Watch: X Spaces with Cathie Wood (ARK Invest) (2023) · 9:38 ↗ · In the archive
Was the New York Times throttled on X?
“…any organization that refuses to buy a subscription is not going to be recommended…”
— Elon Musk, 30 November 2023 · Watch: Elon Musk on Advertisers, Trust and the "Wild Storm" in His Mind | DealBook Summit 2023 · 1:14:22 ↗ · In the archive
Is mainstream news just too slow now?
“The legacy media is constant déjà vu – telling you the “news” long after you heard it”
— Elon Musk, 25 November 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Has Tesla come close to failing?
“But the only reason I agreed to that at all was because I was told Tesla would be bankrupt otherwise. If there was an SEC investigation like this, banks would suspend funding, we’re bankrupted immediately, at the time.”
— Elon Musk, 9 November 2023 · Watch: Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400 · 1:51:08 ↗ · In the archive
Is X the new legacy media?
“There appears to be zero self-awareness among legacy media that they behave like an NPC drone collective 🤣🤣”
— Elon Musk, 20 March 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Should you be skeptical of news stories about Twitter?
“Absolutely. Twitter is also a competitor to legacy media for news, so they are fundamentally conflicted.”
— Elon Musk, 12 February 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Did you actually respond to the Business Insider reporters?
“No, it was clear that their only goal was a hit price to interfere with the Twitter acquisition. The story was written before they even talked to me.”
— Elon Musk, 20 May 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Does negative news sell better?
“That’s true to some degree, but citizen podcasts that aren’t negative like Rogan, Fridman, Dodd, TED interviews, etc are very popular. Maybe part of why traditional media outlets are so negative is because old habits die hard? They so rarely even try to be positive.”
— Elon Musk, 7 February 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Why was it called "Not a Flamethrower"?
“Apparently, some customs agencies are saying they won’t allow shipment of anything called a “Flamethrower”. To solve this, we are renaming it “Not a Flamethrower”.”
— Elon Musk, 2 February 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
update on the most recent news with the idea of putting satellites to provide Internet to developing countries and unconnected people
“…we're still at the early stages of sort of a big Leo Constellation communication idea…”
— Elon Musk, 7 July 2015 · Watch: ISS R&D Conference · 46:52 ↗ · In the archive