Future Stories

Can a company outgrow Earth’s economy? The claim is not crazy on long timescales. Saudi Aramco already approximates a whole nation’s economy, tech megacaps now dwarf the entire stock market of 15 years ago, and history shows step-changes in growth (0.3% agrarian → 2-3% industrial). North America’s economy became larger than the economy of Europe. ... Read more

Ix Tech Neo has a breakthrough 25 Degree of Freedom (DOF), tendon-driven hands for the NEO humanoid platform– achieving near human-level dexterity, strength, safety, and reliability. They will mass produce them. These hands are designed to do something fundamental: remove the hardware ceiling on what humanoid robots can actually do, and make data the only ... Read more

SpaceX can own both the world’s largest satellite constellation and they could buy a ready-made network of 24,000 cell towers covering 80% of the American population. That combination would create something no mobile carrier has ever has which is high-speed 5G in cities plus continuous 5G coverage everywhere else from space. This is not science ... Read more

Theo spent six figures in tokens testing OpenAI’s 5.6 Sol model to see whether if its better than Fable and what OpenAI have done to make it even better than 5.5. They breakdown why they both moved their agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs ... Read more

Wes Roth opens the video by announcing that Grok 4.5 has officially gone live to the public after strong internal beta testing at SpaceX and Tesla. He explains that the model is positioned as an Opus-class system but stands out for being significantly faster, more token-efficient, and cheaper to run. The introduction highlights how Grok ... Read more

Actual usage of SpaceXAI Grok 4.5. First person reports that there are programmers successfully replacing Opus and Sonnet in all of his systems today with Grok 4.5. Grok 4.5 worked great. Spending can drop 50-80%. $200-500 instead of $1000. Grok 4.5 is faster than Opus 4.8. Maybe 2 to 3 times faster. OpenAI GPT 5.6 ... Read more

SpaceXAI Grok 4.5 is built for real-world engineering. It excels in large codebases and handles long-running tasks that span multiple repositories, hundreds of skills, and a variety of tools. Grok 4.5 is efficient and fast. It uses half as many tokens per task, delivers higher tokens per second, and costs less than half as much ... Read more

Morgan Stanley has an interesting 142 page report on SpaceX that has several material inconsistencies between its high-level assumptions about orbital compute scale, mass/payload, capex, and monetization and the known technical specifications for Starship launches, satellite power density, and real-world AI compute deals. However, we can set aside agreeing about the AI data centers in ... Read more

SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public today. Elon says it is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost. Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow. It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient ... Read more