Tesla has created the hand of the Terminator, and Elon Musk aims to earn $1,000,000,000,000.

[Introduction] Elon Musk's trillion - dollar dream is about to set sail! Tesla's shareholders' meeting has approved an epic compensation plan. If the market value soars to $8.5 trillion in the next decade, Musk will receive nearly a trillion dollars in stock rewards, leading humanity into the era of AI and robots.

The happiest day for Elon Musk!

Tesla's shareholders' meeting has just approved an unprecedented executive compensation plan -

In the next decade, Musk will have the opportunity to receive nearly $1 trillion in stock rewards.

Musk fulfilled his promise and happily danced with the robot Optimus at the shareholders' meeting:

Netizens said that Musk's innocent and child - like lively dance was comically cute.

It was amazing! Impressive! Great moves... But they were talking about the robot Optimus.

After watching the video, we can only say that the public has sharp eyes. The robot can dance better than an average person.

If the robot Optimus were covered with a "human skin", who could tell if it was a robot dancing?

The scenes in science - fiction movies are about to come true:

Elon Musk's path to becoming a trillionaire

More than 75% of the shareholders voted to approve the compensation plan worth up to $1 trillion.

The whole venue erupted! Cheers filled the air.

But this is by no means easy to obtain.

To receive all the rewards, Musk must lead Tesla to achieve unprecedented epic growth:

Increase the market value to $8.5 trillion (a more than 500% increase from the current valuation), deliver 20 million electric vehicles, 1 million humanoid robots (Tesla Bot), and 1 million commercially - operated Robotaxis.

The entire betting cycle lasts for 10 years and consists of 12 stages, each with market - value and operational targets.

This is the most ambitious (and least humble) task list in corporate history - half science - fiction fantasy and half personal worship.

$8.5 trillion is equivalent to the current combined market value of "Meta + Microsoft + Google".

A $1 - trillion compensation would crown Musk as the world's first trillionaire, making Jeff Bezos' wealth seem like that of a "poor man".

But every penny is tied to performance. Fail to meet the targets? Get nothing.

This is the purest form of an American enterprise.

It's either glory or nothing. The shareholders have placed all their bets, firmly believing that Musk will create another miracle.

Musk's current net worth is estimated at about $473 billion (it reached $500 billion on Wednesday).

If the plan is successfully implemented, Musk's stake in Tesla will increase from 13% to nearly 29% - the threshold of controlling stake he has long pursued.

It's worth noting that when Musk devoted a lot of energy to other matters at the beginning of the year, Tesla's stock price plunged 43% between January and March. Since his return, the stock price has rebounded strongly, with a cumulative increase of 16% this year.

This vote is essentially a bet on whether Tesla can transform into an AI giant with a market value of $8.5 trillion.

Well - known Wall Street analyst Dan Ives pointed out that autonomous driving and robot technology have become "the key turning point for Tesla".

He predicts that Tesla's market value will rush towards the $3 - trillion mark in the next 12 to 18 months.

The capital market is voting with real money -

On Wednesday, Tesla's stock price rose 4.1% to $462, with a cumulative increase of 77% this year.

The humanoid robot is so lifelike!

At the Tesla shareholders' meeting, the robot demonstrated the flexible hand of the V2 Optimus robot:

Musk's mother posted a congratulatory message:

Musk replied that the flexible hand of the next - version V3 would be even better.

Some netizens replied that the next - generation Optimus robot would be equipped with a flexible hand with 22 degrees of freedom, and in the future, the robot could complete high - difficulty tasks such as playing the piano and juggling.

If you've watched the movie "Terminator" directed by James Cameron, you may remember the following scene:

It's time to seriously consider the possibility of the rise of robots and the danger to human civilization.

At the conference, Musk said that Tesla's humanoid robots will start mass - production next year, with human safety as the top priority.

At last month's Q3 earnings conference call, Musk told analysts that

If we really build an army of robots, I should at least have enough influence over it. If I can't control it, I can't feel at ease building such an army.

At the earnings conference call, Musk also emphasized the importance of the humanoid robot Optimus again, saying it "is expected to become the greatest product in human history".

He once said that bipedal robots could take on the work of factory workers or even nannies in the future. Now, his expectations have gone further:

Optimus will be an amazing surgeon in the future. With Optimus and autonomous driving, we can truly create a world without poverty and with high - quality medical care for everyone.

He said that the economic effect of humanoid robots is huge, and it can expand the global economic scale by 10 - 100 times.

Optimus is like an "infinite money generator".

In the future, even "money" itself may no longer be measured by currency but by "energy" (watts): how much electricity you can mobilize determines your "purchasing power".

Once the continuous production volume reaches 1 million units per year, the production cost will be around $20,000.

Tesla's humanoid robots will become the greatest product in history, with an estimated market size of billions of units. The ratio of personal robots to industrial robots is probably between 1:3 and 1:5.

Tesla will initiate "the fastest production - capacity ramp - up in the history of all large and complex manufacturing products". It will start a robot production line with an annual output of 1 million units at the Fremont factory and then build a production line with an annual capacity of 10 million units in Texas.

The currently displayed is the 2.5 - generation humanoid robot:

That is to say, the robot that danced with Musk will be upgraded.

Next year, Tesla will start producing the Optimus V3 version. V3 will bring about a huge improvement.

People who see it will think it's a human in a robot suit.

After that, a major version of the humanoid robot will be released every year, with significant improvements each time.

Speaking of anthropomorphic robots, recently, XPeng Motors in China launched the "most anthropomorphic robot":

It was so anthropomorphic that there was an online debate: Is XPeng's robot a real person in a robot suit?

To prove its innocence, He Xiaopeng cut open the calf of the anthropomorphic robot. This even exceeded the "uncanny valley" effect. Some netizens thought it was too cruel and heartless to the "robot - person" to "dissect" it in public on its first day of existence...

XPeng Motors publicly demonstrated its anthropomorphic robot and autonomous - taxi technology roadmap, which echoes Tesla's long - standing technological direction.

US market observers pointed out that the follow - up of competitors confirms the commercial value of Tesla's technological route.

Tesla still has unique advantages and has overcome three major difficulties: complex hand engineering, real - world artificial intelligence, and large - scale mass production.

Tesla's humanoid robot is essentially an "intelligent vehicle with arms and legs