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TSLA directional thesis

The real robotics race is just Tesla's Optimus against the Chinese, because making prototypes is easy and mass-producing them is brutally hard.

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“Like, I think robotics, you know, we talked about the last time, are going to finally start to be real... I do still think that the main battle is going to be between Tesla's Optimus and the Chinese, because it's easy to make prototypes. It's hard to mass-produce them.”
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