Recently, Musk, the world's richest man, CEO of Tesla, the U.S. electric car maker, and founder of SpaceX, was named Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year.
Time magazine said: "As the richest man in the world, he does not have a house and has been selling his property. He puts satellites into orbit and uses solar energy to serve millions of households. He drives a self-made car that requires no gasoline and hardly a driver. With a flick of his finger, the stock market will skyrocket or plummet. Every word he said was put on the lips of a large group of fans. When he took his business global, he also dreamed of colonizing Mars. ”
"Call him a clown, a genius, an industrialist, or a performer, but he's a man who is eager to save the planet and is committed to building new habitats for humanity." Time magazine wrote, "When he crossed the earth, he dreamed of Mars in his heart. His influence is everywhere, dominating Wall Street at the snap of a finger. ”
According to Forbes estimates, his net worth is $265.4 billion; Tesla's market capitalization has soared to more than $1 trillion this year, putting it worth more than Ford and General Motors combined.
In addition to Tesla, which produces pure electric vehicles, other companies also have the dream of "star sea", and we take stock of the value of Musk's company together.
Space X Rocket Launch Company
Space X, an American private space manufacturer and space transportation company, was founded by Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, California. Musk's ultimate goal is to send people to Mars, where a "second habitat" for humans will be built.
Now the world's richest man lives in a rental house near the Space X base in Boca Chica, Texas. He described his recent presence in Texas: "My job is mostly in this remote area, which is basically like a technical convent. ”
In September, Space X's first civilian mission, Evolution 4, was successfully completed, with the Dragon spacecraft, which carried four crew members, returned to Earth after three days in space. This is the longest distance that humans have traveled over Earth since the Apollo moon landings, marking another step closer to Mars.
SolarCity photovoltaic energy
Founded in October 2008, SolarCity is a U.S. company specializing in the development of residential photovoltaic power generation projects, located in Foster City, California. SolarCity offers a full range of solar services from system design and installation to financing and construction supervision.
After Tesla acquired SolarCity, Musk served as chairman and largest shareholder of both companies, and Solarcity was also founded and operated by his two cousins.
Musk wrote in a blog post defending the deal: "Despite similar origins and pursuing the same overall goal of sustainable energy, they are completely independent of each other. It's just a coincidence of history. At the same time, to ease investors' concerns, Musk gave up his voting rights in the acquisition deal.
Neuralink brain-computer interface
In the summer of 2016, Neuralink's company was founded in California, USA. Their work can be summed up in one thing: they are trying to develop a technology that integrates the human brain with computer systems. This fusion, enabled by brain-computer interfaces, will help treat brain diseases in humans. And to make humanity stronger.
In fact, the exploration of brain-computer interfaces began in the 1960s and 1970s. If the research and development is successful, then human beings will no longer have to spend a lot of time studying, and even the university will not have to be tested, and the knowledge known to humans can be "instilled" into the brain through the brain-computer interface.
Why does Musk care about brain-computer interfaces? Over the past three years, he has repeatedly expressed his concern that AI is advancing too fast. Apparently, the Silicon Valley giant wants to fight the increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI) in this way.
Model π phone
The current global mobile phone market, Apple iPhone and Android phone are equally divided, Tesla will launch a more powerful smart phone, and there are many black technology blessings, which is tesla model π. To put it simply, there is no phone bill, and you can access the Internet everywhere.
Judging from the news currently exposed, tesla model π shape is also very unique, the front uses a 2K resolution true full screen, the appearance is comparable to the iPhone 13 series straight frame model, the back has four cameras to form a camera module, the fuselage is made of titanium alloy integrated molding. It is reported that this is also the key to the realization of solar charging π the model.
In the future, this mobile phone will not only become the intelligent hub of human-computer interaction, but also make this mobile phone the key to the connection between Tesla's car brain and computer.
Hyperloop Hyperloop
Hyperloop hyperloop has a long history, the first open source design by a team of Tesla and SpaceX, the core idea is to use a capsule transport carrier called "pod" in the pipeline "tube" without air resistance and friction at high speed.
It is a kind of transportation with "vacuum steel pipe transportation" as the theoretical core, which has the characteristics of ultra-high speed, high safety, low energy consumption, low noise and small pollution.
It is to use the magnetic levitation + low vacuum mode, so that the train is suspended in the center of the pipeline, greatly reducing the resistance, and then through the linear induction motor and air compressor propulsion, the maximum speed can reach 1080 kilometers per hour.
At that time, it will only take 1 hour to get from Shanghai to Beijing, which is much faster than the plane.
Boring Company Infrastructure
That is, boring company, is an American infrastructure and tunnel construction company.
It was born from a traffic jam in Musk, and he couldn't bear it, he tweeted: "The traffic jam is driving me crazy!" I'm going to build a tunnel excavator and start digging tunnels."
In less than an hour, the project was officially named "The Boring Company", and "Boring" was puned, meaning both "boring" and "drilling". The company's ultimate goal is to build a network of tunnels in major cities to ease ground traffic.
Open AI non-profit artificial intelligence
Open AI, a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research organization, aims to achieve general artificial intelligence (AGI) in a secure manner that benefits all humanity equally, rather than generating profits for the company's shareholders.
Founded in late 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Musk decided to create it after a series of conversations with other Silicon Valley and Seattle tech tycoons.
As an open research company, all of its research results will be published and free to use. This is perhaps the most simple purpose of Musk's many companies.