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Musk Claims Optimus Will Hit AGI First

TL;DR: Elon Musk claims Tesla’s Optimus robot will be the first system to achieve Artificial General Intelligence, with a Gen 3 prototype dropping in Q1 2026.

Elon Musk just made one of his wildest claims yet. He went on X and stated that Tesla will probably be the first company to hit AGI. Not with a chatbot. With Optimus.

He’s betting that true general intelligence has to be physical. The timeline? Tesla plans to reveal the Optimus Gen 3 production-intent prototype in Q1 2026. After that, they want low-volume production running in their own factories by mid-year.

It’s classic Musk optimism. We’ve seen timelines slip before, but if they actually pull off a humanoid form of AGI, everything changes overnight.

Source: eWeek

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