Tesla
promises on the ledger
- unmet Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, 2020-07-25: AI becomes vastly smarter than humans in less than five years, i.e. by July 2025. (by 2025-07-25) · source ↗
- unmet Elon Musk, CEO, 2016-10-19: A Tesla drives itself coast to coast with no human input by the end of 2017. (by 2017-12-31) · source ↗
- unmet Elon Musk, CEO, 2019-04-22: Tesla operates autonomous robotaxis, over a million of them, on public roads by the end of 2020. (by 2020-12-31) · source ↗
- unmet Elon Musk, CEO, 2021-01-27: Tesla vehicles achieve full (Level 5) self-driving more reliable than a human during 2021. (by 2021-12-31) · source ↗
- disputed Elon Musk, CEO, 2025-01-29: A paid, unsupervised robotaxi service launches in Austin in June 2025. (by 2025-06-30) · source ↗
- unmet Elon Musk, CEO, 2025-01-29: Tesla builds several thousand Optimus humanoid robots during 2025. (by 2025-12-31) · source ↗
- met Elon Musk, CEO, 2025-11-06: Cybercab robotaxi production begins at Giga Texas in April 2026. (by 2026-04-30) · source ↗
in the feed
- Cheapest GPU rentals today (2026-09-17), by VRAM: 32GB Tesla V100 $0.136/h (Vast.ai) 48GB RTX A6000 $0.330/h (RunPod) 80GB A800 PCIE $0.468/h (Vast.ai) 96GB RTX · ai news · #AI on Mastodon
- NHTSA Orders Tesla to Prove Its Cybercab Meets Federal Safety Standards · ai news · Gizmodo
- It’s Looking Like Tesla’s Cybercab Might Actually Be Illegal to Sell · ai fails & slop · Futurism
- Tesla Investors Disturbed by Cybercab’s Obvious Lack of Progress · ai fails & slop · Futurism
- Ahead of its Cybercab launch, Tesla told a grieving family that a self-driving car’s fatal crash data was gone — a hacker proved every car keeps it · ai incidents & outages · AI Incident Database
- Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash case · ai incidents & outages · AI Incident Database
$2B committed out across 1 live deal(s) · $0B received across 0. Face value, as announced; undisclosed amounts count as deals and add nothing.
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Counterparties
| Counterparty | Tesla pays / invests | Tesla receives | Deals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | $2B | — | 1 |
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Tesla pays or invests
| Deal | Amount ▾ | Type | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla → xAI | $2B About $2B of Series E preferred, disclosed in Tesla's Q4 2025 shareholder letter (2026-01-28) as 'expected to close in the first quarter'. xAI was folded into SpaceX weeks later. | Equity investment | 2026-01-28 announced | TechCrunch (Tesla shareholder letter) #1fa4f0 |
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