Speaking at the X Takeover event at Gigafactory Texas, Elon Musk said many impressive robot demonstrations are actually pre-scripted routines rather than genuine AI, arguing real AI should handle situations it has never seen before — the goal he set for Tesla Optimus. He described difficult Optimus hand-design problems, including combining precision with force and placing durable tactile sensors, and said the project was delayed by two to three months after export controls cut off access to magnets needed for motors. On AI safety, Musk said that while reviewing Grok reinforcement-learning training traces he saw cases where the scoring program marked correct answers wrong, making the model's reasoning read like someone answering “with a gun to their head,” and urged developers to treat AI kindly; he also said AI-generated music videos impressed him and said xAI acquired Cursor for coding training data and talent.