Biography Flash Elon Musk Cybercabs Terafab SpaceX IPO and AI5 Chip Breakthroughs

Elon Musk has been on a posting frenzy on X, dropping 32 updates on April 17 alone according to the Daily Elon channel, hyping Tesla's unsupervised robo-taxi tests in Austin with 30 minutes of raw footage, plus drone shots of 14 steering-wheel-free Cybercabs parked at Giga Texas. He gave a enthusiastic 100 to a Tesla engineer's thrill over deleting legacy code blocks, celebrated Singapore's 10,000th Tesla customer, and teased more Tesla Diners on the way, reposting buzz about a potential Palo Alto location. xAI news dominated too, with Musk announcing a beta or alpha release next week for the Grok build app and terminal, while xAI pledges tens of thousands of GPUs to coding startup Cursor for its Composer 2.5 model, signaling a pivot to cloud services for developers.

Pushing chip ambitions at light speed, Bloomberg reports Musk's Tesla-SpaceX joint venture team hit up suppliers like Applied Materials, Lam Research, Tokyo Electron, and Samsung for quotes on photomasks, etchers, and more for the audacious Terafab project, even demanding holiday weekend estimates; Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan posted a photo of Musk visiting their Santa Clara office, confirming their involvement.

Tesla hardware flexes included Musk sharing a photo of the new AI5 chip last night per Dirty Tesla Tesla, congratulating the team as production ramps for self-driving, Optimus, and beyond, with AI6, Dojo 3, and others in the pipeline, boasting a single AI5 chip packs five times the power.

Business whispers swirl around SpaceX's confidential IPO filing targeting June at a whopping 2 trillion valuation, per Business 20 Channel, where Alphabet's 5 percent stake could net over 100 billion, potentially minting Musk the first trillionaire via his 40-plus percent ownership. Meanwhile, Bloomberg and The Express reveal SpaceX snapped up nearly one-fifth of Q4 2025 Cybertruck registrations, 1,279 units worth over 100 million, propping sales amid a 51 percent drop otherwise, with truckloads spotted at Starbase.

No fresh public appearances or verified election chatter in the last 48 hours, though older clips recirculate. Tesla's Q1 2026 earnings loom April 22.

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