ELON: OPTIMUS WILL SOON BE BUILT BY OPTIMUS “Here's the thing to understand about humanoid robots in terms of the rate of improvement. You have three exponentials multiplied by each other: an exponential increase in the AI software capability, an exponential increase in the AI chip capability, and an exponential increase in the electromechanical dexterity. The usefulness of the humanoid robot is those three things multiplied by each other. Then you have the recursive effect of Optimus building Optimus. So, you have a recursive, multiplicable, triple exponential.” Source: @elonmusk in Moonshot - Discussion with @PeterDiamandis and @DavidBlundin, January 2026