Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered some pretty eye-popping aspirations for the company during remarks on Saturday.Musk made a virtual appearance at the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley 2025 “Takeover” party in San Mateo,

In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”