Overview
- Shareholders approved a compensation plan that could unlock up to $1 trillion in Musk's stock awards if milestones are met, including selling one million Optimus robots within ten years.
- Musk told the meeting that Optimus and AI could make working optional and enable a “universal high income.”
- He suggested the robots could reduce crime by “following you around and stop you from doing crime” instead of traditional incarceration.
- Musk forecast each robot at roughly five times a human’s annual productivity and said widespread deployment could expand the global economy by 10 to 100 times.
- Optimus remains in the design phase with difficult challenges such as dexterous hands, with Musk estimating a future price of $20,000 to $30,000 and saying a next version, Optimus B3, could debut in Q1 2026.