Future Stories

Impulse Space has over a $1 billion raised and $4.26 valuation and has key SpaceX people like Tom Mueller. They will be selling in-space mobility as a service rather than hardware. They provide orbital transfer, last-mile delivery, hosting, deployment, and high-agility maneuvering after a launch vehicle separates the payload in LEO. Nextbigfuture covered Impulse in ... Read more

Tesla v14 Lite is being rolled out to FSD Hardware 3 customers. This gives most of the FSD 14 capability to older HW3 cars. They distilled the intelligence from HW4 V14 into HW3. This allows HW3 to directly learn how to handle scenarios using HW4 V14 as a guide. This process unlocks the improvements that ... Read more

You may not be able to predict the changes but at least accept that change has already happened. It will help save your investments. I review the Opus scale models and the Mythos scale model monetization and productivity impact in the article at this link. AI revenue beats all other revenue and all other profit. ... Read more

All that matters today for SpaceX and Tesla is the life and death battle to win AI. Every strategic move is URGENT. There is no time to wait years for robotaxi. Tesla and SpaceX must merge ASAP. There is more money and more gains from AI than anything else. The prize is thousands of trillions ... Read more

Spacex Starship 40 rolled out to Massey’s on June 23–24. It successfully completed an engine igniter test on June 24. Today, SpaceX has been doing multiple propellant loading cycles as part of the static fire campaign. There was an earlier attempt (or series of attempts) today that ended with detanking. Observers noted what looked like ... Read more

SpaceX recently completed the largest IPO ever, raising more than $85 billion and debuting at a ~$1.77 trillion valuation. Shares have since pulled back (a common post-IPO pattern, especially in volatile markets), but the raise was enormous. xAI is part of that story because of the earlier integration. FEb 2026, SpaceX acquired xAI and the ... Read more

Traffic has rebounded sharply since the US-Iran MoU/deal around June 17–18, 2026, which eased the effective blockade and sanctions waivers. However, it remains volatile, below pre-war levels. Traffic has rebounded sharply since the US-Iran MoU/deal around June 17–18, 2026, which eased the effective blockade and sanctions waivers. However, it remains volatile, below pre-war levels June ... Read more

Gavin Baker described how in ~3 years (around 2028–2029), a bigger/bulkier iPhone with enough extra DRAM could run a pruned/distilled/quantized version of a frontier model like Gemini 5 (or Grok 4.x / ChatGPT equivalent) at 30–60 tokens per second on-device. This would be free, private, and good enough for most users. An enhanced future iPhone ... Read more

SpaceX + xAI + Tesla to WIN AGI Not Robotaxi. AGI supremacy. 2. Why merge at all? Because AI is WAY BIGGER than Robotaxi. Merging creates:$140B+ combined cash for AI spending Frictionless capital allocation (no board votes, no transfer pricing, no negotiations) One P&L, one balance sheet = Elon moves at max speed Peter Thiel ... Read more