Elon Musk says it's AI-powered Optimus will be an infinite money glitch

Imagine if you had a machine that could complete 5x as much tasks as you would per day, how much money would you made?

Most would say, well, five times what they make right now, but given that reward compounds when more work is done, one stands to earn a lot more.

Now imagine owning 10-20 of such machines, what happens then?

This is what it looks like to own something that is an infinite money glitch and Elon Musk is promising that with its humanoid, Optimus.

Humanoids are robots that are specifically designed to have a human-like appearance and can perform a wide range of tasks because their form allows them to interact with human environments and use human-designed tools.

Optimus is Tesla's humanoid, which depends on advanced AI, reportedly the same AI system developed for Tesla's self-driving cars.

Optimus uses AI for navigation, object recognition, and to learn how to perform tasks in dynamic environments. Elon Musk aims to build Optimus to be so real and effective at a lot of tasks, including performing surgeries with a level of precision that is impossible, that is beyond human.

Speaking on Tesla Inc.'s Q3 2025 earnings call last month, Musk doubled down on his sky-high ambitions for Optimus, the company's humanoid robot project. The Tesla CEO called it "an infinite money glitch," predicting it would not only become a key revenue stream for the company—but possibly the most transformative product Tesla has ever built.

Optimus at scale is the infinite money glitch," Musk said. "If Optimus achieves five times the productivity of a person per year because it can operate 24/7... that's why I called it the infinite money glitch.

With Optimus and self-driving, we can actually create a world where there is no poverty, where everyone has access to the finest medical care," he said. Then he dropped this: "Optimus will be an incredible surgeon. Imagine if everyone had access to an incredible surgeon.

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For those unaware, Telsa stakeholders approved a performance-based compensation package—worth $1 trillion—granting Musk greater control over the company.

With reportedly 12 milestones set out for Musk to reach to earn this compensation, some of the outstanding tranches include:

Musk taking Tesla’s market capitalisation to $8.5 trillion.

Also, the billionaire CEO has to deliver 20 million vehicles, achieving 1 million robotaxis in commercial operation, and delivering 1 million humanoid robots.

I think that the next decade will be really interesting. There are a couple of things Elon Musk is widely interested and optimistic about and that includes rockets and AI.

Whether or not he'll build robots that actually solves poverty is open for debate, but what we can expect is that advancement in artificial intelligence over the next decade will be significant, and 10 years worths of investment in developments should yield AI capable of more than just surgical operations.

I think that not only Tesla will be at this stage, many other companies will probably had released AI-powered humanoids amongst other AI robots and solutions that will completely reshape our world, achieving massive improvements across all fields and sectors.

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