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Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN Aug 12, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:31 John Coogan There's an obscure provision in Musk's twenty-twenty-five Tesla pay agreement that's already been, ah, approved by the shareholders, and it was that crazy one we talked about where it was, like, a million robo-taxis by this time, and,…
  • ▶ 21:24 John Coogan They need to deliver one million Optimus robots. 3 times in the scene

U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN Jul 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:21 John Coogan Even in a world where, you know, Tesla gets to the frontier of humanoid robots with Optimus, and then they're going up against, um, uh, a, a unit tree for, uh, a deployment in Germany, like BYD, right?
  • ▶ 7:42 John Coogan Uh, one was, um, I mean, he talks about humanoid robots, and, uh, he paints a very clear vision for the Optimist program, and it made me really hope that there's a lot of focus there, because that feels like an industry where,

Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom May 1, 2026 · 1 mention

Artemis II Makes History, Nutella in Space, The US-China AI Race | Diet TBPN Apr 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:38 John Coogan And so you could be in this interesting situation where Elon is incentivized to, to move a lot faster, probably not with humans on board, but get even just a basic optimist robot up there, get a lunar lander up there, just continue to…

Meta Tokenmaxxing, Intel Joins Terafab, Frontier AI vs. China | Diet TBPN Apr 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:54 unnamed speaker Optimus will also need chips, and they are planning to use Intel for that as well.

FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race Mar 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:36 unnamed speaker Is it going to come from Optimus or

SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN Mar 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:17 John Coogan We'll build an electromagnetic mass driver on the moon with robots like Optimus and humans.

Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It Mar 23, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:37 John Coogan He says, to reach a petawatt, we'll build an electromagnetic mass driver on the moon with robots like Optimus and humans.
  • ▶ 21:19 unnamed speaker Optimus is, is quite good.
  • ▶ 39:53 John Coogan Will the Tesla Optimus be released this year?

Elon’s go-to banker leads SpaceX IPO, SaaSination, Bejing’s robot Boom | Diet TBPN Feb 11, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 24:31 unnamed speaker On, uh, on Dorkesh, Elon said the optimist is five 11 as well. 3 times in the scene

The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:01 unnamed speaker Optimus opens it for you, takes a picture, does a money spread, does a money spread, walks to the, walks to the post office, mails the next letter, mails the check, this is the future.

FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:05 unnamed speaker Like, that's probably his long-term thing is like, yeah, there, there will be an optimist.

Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN Jan 30, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 17:48 John Coogan Uh, he's making that cash investment in XAI, and of course he's really focused on optimist humanoid robots, and it seems like he could be scaling up production there very, very quickly. 7 times in the scene

X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN Jan 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:04 John Coogan The speculation is that this is the result of the interview he gave where he said XAI intends to run one million human emulations, a digital version of Optimus for online work, uh, which will be powered by 2 times in the scene

xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN Jan 8, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:27 Jordi Hays The mass production audit for Tesla's Optimus V three has been completed and seven Chinese companies have been finalized as core suppliers. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:22 Jordi Hays Do you think that, uh, that, that post from Denny's on X earlier was maybe kind of in response to seeing some of this optimist news? 2 times in the scene

Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN Nov 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:07 unnamed speaker Like, the Optimus or, or figure would be, like, traumatizing to a one-year-old.

Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package | Diet TBPN Nov 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:07 unnamed speaker Pull up this other, pull up this other video of Optimus.

How Robots Are Quietly Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing | Saman Farid on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:34 Saman Farid Um, some of, some of the new humanoids are using, uh, linear actuators, uh, which is a newer technology, and I think the Tesla humanoid is, is doing that.

The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:51 Jordi Hays It feels like there's, you know, the, the optimist, the one X you've got, you know, figure making noise.

Car Dealership Guy on Electric Vehicles, Automation, and the Future of Car Dealerships. Mar 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker I imagine, you know, we, we cover the, the robotics companies, the one X's, the, uh, the figures, the Tesla Optimist, things like that.

Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books. Mar 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:22 Ashlee Vance Optimus, you know, to be honest, like when I first saw Optimus, I thought it was like very heavy on the smoke and mirrors and like they've made incredible progress as well. 2 times in the scene

"Don't listen to anyone" - Shaun Maguire talks Elon, Robots, Space, and the Mars Mission. Mar 7, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:34 Shaun Maguire Tesla Optimus event, I can't remember when, maybe, you know, months ago or whatever, and it was more impressive in person than I think people realized online. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:49 Shaun Maguire It's going to have to perfect vertical farming, you know, going to have to perfect surgical robots, going to have to, you know, or just have optimists do it.

HUGE Humanoid Robots Funding for 2025 ($40 BILLION) Feb 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:51 unnamed speaker And you say, hey, Elon, we're going to go and fund a direct competitor to the Tesla Optimist, even if your venture fund is not a Tesla shareholder, Elon might say, hey, what, what, what, what, like, come on, like, I thought we were on the…

The END of LUXURY GOODS? (Trump’s Tariffs) Feb 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:26 John Coogan We talk about, um, you know, all, all sorts of hardware stuff, unitary versus Boston dynamics, all these different things that could, could, or the Tesla optimist.

Elon's Big Week (ep4) Oct 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:18 unnamed speaker Yeah, but if Tesla was private right now, would he have done the optimist demo?
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