Elon Musk wheeled out his “Macrohard” dad joke again in the form of a supposed fleet of “Digital Optimus” agents that he claims would be capable of “emulating the function of entire companies.”<\/p>\n
“Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI,” the billionaire wrote<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n “Grok is the master conductor\/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard\/mouse actions.”<\/p>\n “Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software.”<\/p>\n And Macrohard? “A funny reference to Microsoft.”<\/p>\n Hilarious.<\/p>\n Microsoft’s boss previously boasted<\/a> that AI generates more than 30 percent of the company’s code. Microsoft has also suffered several quality issues<\/a> in recent months. If AI is already writing a big chunk of Microsoft’s software, simulating the company with Musk’s Macrohard might not be entirely outlandish.<\/p>\n Then again, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) has been linked to several well-publicized accidents<\/a>. Driving Windows into a wall could be the logical next step.<\/p>\n Musk has been banging the drum for Macrohard since last year. In August 2025, he posted<\/a> a message urging readers to “join @xAI and help build a purely AI software company called Macrohard. It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real!”<\/p>\n “In principle, given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware, it should be possible to simulate them entirely with AI.”<\/p>\n Since Musk’s August post, Tesla awarded him a package worth up to $1 trillion<\/a>, though it hinges in part on a stratospheric rise in the company’s market cap. Earlier this year, Tesla reported a decline in revenue while Musk talked up Optimus possibilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n As for the xAI-Tesla project, Musk said: “This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal.”<\/p>\n He added: “No other company can yet do this.”<\/p>\n Musk has a long track record of overpromising and underdelivering, from self-driving autonomous vehicles by 2015<\/a> and 500,000 Cybertrucks a year<\/a>, to DOGE promised savings<\/a>, and putting humans on Mars by 2026<\/a>. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wheeled out his “Macrohard” dad joke again in the form of a supposed fleet of “Digital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-476561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}