The platform Right Side Broadcasting Network documented a discussion featuring SpaceX and XAI founder Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, highlighting a historic alliance between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States. This partnership, which once built an "energy-based economy fueling and energizing the industrial age," is now pivoting to the "intelligence age" to fuel AI factories, robotics, and other advances. Musk and Huang emphasized that AI and robotics are the singular path to eliminating global poverty and predicted that work itself will eventually become optional.
Musk, known for utilizing "first order thinking" (sometimes called "first order scaling" by Huang) to disrupt industries—like achieving reusability in space travel and making electric cars compelling with Tesla—is now applying that approach to humanoid robotics. He predicts that humanoid robots will be the "biggest industry or the biggest product ever," bigger than cell phones or anything else. Musk believes that while currently there are only "gimmicks," Tesla will make the first actually useful humanoid robots. He posits that everyone will want their own personal assistant, like their "own personal C3PO [or] R2-D2". In fact, a humanoid robot will be better than C3PO and R2-D2 combined, "times 10". Musk stated there is "only basically one way to make everyone wealthy and that is AI and robotics".
The foundation of this future is AI, which Huang described as an infrastructure, foundational to "every company, every industry, every country". Computing has fundamentally changed from a "retrieval-based computing model" to a generative model. Because software is now generated in real time, unique for every user based on context, circumstance, and prompt, "you need AI factories all over the world to generate the content in real time," justifying the need for these factories. This generative content is "contextually sensible and therefore intelligent".
Musk and Huang directly addressed fears about job elimination, asserting that in the "long term," perhaps 10 to 20 years, "work will be optional". Work would be pursued for pleasure, like playing a video game or growing vegetables because one "like growing vegetables". Musk also speculated that, assuming continued progress in AI and robotics, currency will become irrelevant at some point, although "fundamental physics elements" like electricity and mass will remain constraints.
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In the near term, productivity gains are expected to lead to greater activity and new opportunities. Huang provided the example of radiology, which has largely been converted to AI-driven radiology. Although predictions suggested radiologists would be the first jobs eliminated, the trend shows that "more radiologists being hired now as a result of AI". This is because AI makes studying images so productive that radiologists can study more images, more modalities, spend more time with patients, and accept more patients, leading to "more radiology all around the world" and better diagnoses. Both leaders believe they, too, will be busier because they will have "so many ideas we want to pursue" that productivity will allow them to reach faster.
This progress is accelerating groundbreaking research, as described in the Right-Side Broadcasting Network coverage. Professor Omar Yaghi, the first American Saudi to win a Nobel Prize in creating new chemistry, leveraged AI accelerators and models like Grok to create new chemistry involving metal organic frameworks that act as a sponge to "capture water from air and also to capture carbon dioxide". Additionally, AI accelerated by Nvidia is helping create a "nano robot 500 nanometers by 1,000 nanometers to be able to do gene editing leveraging the crisper technology to take out sickle cell disease".
In a major partnership announcement, XAI and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are collaborating on a "Humane 500 megawatt" AI data center, starting with a 50-megawatt phase one, done in conjunction with Nvidia. Nvidia is also working with Humane on Omniverse, a digital twin environment where robots can learn how to be effective because the environment "obeys the laws of physics," allowing for applications in digital factories and warehouses.
Looking at space, Musk offered a radical prediction, stating that AI in space is "inevitable" if civilization continues. He argued that achieving any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev Type 2 scale civilization requires solar-powered AI satellites in deep space. Musk estimates that the cost-effectiveness of AI in space will be "overwhelmingly better than AI on the ground," potentially in "not more than 5 years from now". This is because space offers continuous solar power (eliminating the need for batteries), cheaper solar panels without glass or framing, and cooling that is simply radiative. Building even a few hundred gigawatts of AI compute per year is "very difficult to do that on Earth," and building a terawatt per year is deemed "impossible" on Earth.
Finally, Huang addressed the question of an "AI bubble," arguing that the enormous demand for accelerated computing is justified by three realities: the end of Moore's law; the transition of the core engine of the internet, recommender systems (Rexus), to generative AI; and the subsequent emergence of "agentic AI" (like Grok and OpenAI) on top of this foundation. The shift from general purpose computing to accelerated computing, which has seen GPUs rise to 90% of the world's top 500 supercomputers in six years, justifies the investment. This "92 alliance" is shifting from energy to digital to the intelligence age, powered by pioneers such as Musk and Huang to "serve humanity and create on a net new basis new economies new jobs and a better future".
