evidence: For about an hour and a half, Musk took questions from the (predominantly male) audience, according to people in attendance. He said he believes we’ll reach artificial general intelligence (AGI) in a couple of years; he hopes to build a "supersonic jet company" next; he plans to open-source xAI’s models roughly nine months after they’re released; and most importantly, he wants to move fast. He compared xAI’s growth to the SR-71 Blackbird, an airplane that flew three times the speed of sound and provided the US with enemy information during the Cold War. [...] Musk is now grappling with fierce competition in the AI race for top engineering talent and GPUs. As the richest person in the world, money isn’t an issue for him, though — despite the financial pressure that X’s plummeting value has created. While he’s raised billions of dollars for xAI, Musk doesn’t exactly need to create a profitable AI company any time soon — for him, taking down his runaway rival OpenAI seems to be satisfying enough. [...] In Musk’s world, AGI isn’t controlled by companies like OpenAI or Google, who keep their best models private. Instead, it’s owned by him and shared with the world.