FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Animations showing AI technology development, AI chip, computing facilities

California, USA - Sept 22, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla:
"The Chinese AI models are generally outstanding actually. You can see on the sort of intelligence rankings, especially given the limited amount of compute that the Chinese AI companies have, the performance is excellent. Probably China's doing by far the best in terms of performance per unit of compute. And as I've said publicly, I think China's going to address the compute limitation, I think, faster than most people expect. My rough guess would be that China addresses the compute constraints with lithography and chip-making in about two or three years."

Hefei City, Anhui Province, east China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Robotics and Embodied Intelligence Exhibition Area at 2026 World Manufacturing Convention
4. Various of humanoid robots, robotic dogs, visitors at exhibition

California, USA - Sept 22, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (partially overlaid with shot 6):
"[I believe there will be] at least a billion humanoid robots within 10 years, probably less than 10 years. I think that continues to grow. If you assume that things roughly double per year, then that's about every three or four years you have a 10X increase. Say in 15 years there are 10 billion robots, in 20 years: 100 billion. If you think like Star Wars, where you had C-3PO and R2-D2, and they were friendly, and helpful robots. Wouldn't it be great if everyone could have their own personal C-3PO and R2-D2? But even better than that, like more productive, that could take care of elderly parents, [be a] guardian and watch over the children or be a teacher, like an individualized tutor to your child, and taking care of any jobs that you can think of. I think everyone would like to have a future where they can have their own personal robots, and then I think you'll see many companies where it's one person with hundreds, maybe thousands of robots, but like physical robots, as well as digital robots, so the productivity of one person would be greatly amplified. And my prediction is that there will be effectively, universal high income. In fact, it's not clear to me that money will even matter in the future."

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Hefei City, Anhui Province, east China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of humanoid robots, robotic dogs, visitors at exhibition
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7. Various of humanoid robot directing traffic, helping travelers, introducing exhibits at museum, working in hospital

California, USA - Sept 22, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (partially overlaid with shot 9/ending with shot 10):
"My recommendation for education would be to get as broad-based an education as possible and that includes arts and sciences, engineering, wide general knowledge. To know what to ask the robots for, you need to be able to formulate the question. And with the broadest possible general knowledge, you will be better able to formulate the questions or what they call 'prompt engineering', I guess. But you've got to convey your wishes to the robot. And as crazy as this sounds, we will run out [of questions to ask]. There will be so many robots and so much AI that the AI will actually be eager to hear any requests that you could possibly have, because that request will be fulfilled immediately."

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FILE: Shanghai, China - July 18, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Various of humanoid robots
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10. Humanoid robots

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11. Various of programmers working
12. Supercomputers
13. Various of AI models in data center

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered striking assessments of China's artificial intelligence development, saying he believes the country will address its computing constraints within the next two to three years, as he also offered his bold predictions on how advanced tech such as humanoid robots and AI will come to completely redefine life as we know it.

In an interview with the China Media Group (CMG) at Tesla's engineering headquarters at California's Silicon Valley on Tuesday, Musk shared his view on the topic of AI, which has been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks amid increased focus over its rapid development and the need for greater global governance of this fast-evolving technology.

"The Chinese AI models are generally outstanding actually. You can see on the sort of intelligence rankings, especially given the limited amount of compute that the Chinese AI companies have, the performance is excellent. Probably China's doing by far the best in terms of performance per unit of compute. And as I've said publicly, I think China's going to address the compute limitation, I think, faster than most people expect. My rough guess would be that China addresses the compute constraints with lithography and chip-making in about two or three years," said Musk.

The entrepreneur also highlighted the explosive growth of humanoid robots and laid out his vision for their future applications. He even predicts their widespread adoption could be comparable to the level of companionship seen in some science fiction movies.

"[I believe there will be] at least a billion humanoid robots within 10 years, probably less than 10 years. I think that continues to grow. If you assume that things roughly double per year, then that's about every three or four years you have a 10X increase. Say in 15 years there are 10 billion robots, in 20 years: 100 billion. If you think like Star Wars, where you had C-3PO and R2-D2, and they were friendly, and helpful robots. Wouldn't it be great if everyone could have their own personal C-3PO and R2-D2? But even better than that, like more productive, that could take care of elderly parents, [be a] guardian and watch over the children or be a teacher, like an individualized tutor to your child, and taking care of any jobs that you can think of," said Musk.

"I think everyone would like to have a future where they can have their own personal robots, and then I think you'll see many companies where it's one person with hundreds, maybe thousands of robots, but like physical robots, as well as digital robots, so the productivity of one person would be greatly amplified. And my prediction is that there will be effectively, universal high income. In fact, it's not clear to me that money will even matter in the future," he continued.

Given these potentially life-altering advancements with machines taking over much of the work, Musk was asked about what areas are left for humans to handle. He said that there will still be a strong need for mankind to cultivate a strong general knowledge through which to interact and with AI and other cutting-edge tech, in order to fully utilize its endless potential.

"My recommendation for education would be to get as broad-based an education as possible and that includes arts and sciences, engineering, wide general knowledge. To know what to ask the robots for, you need to be able to formulate the question. And with the broadest possible general knowledge, you will be better able to formulate the questions or what they call 'prompt engineering', I guess. But you've got to convey your wishes to the robot. And as crazy as this sounds, we will run out [of questions to ask]. There will be so many robots and so much AI that the AI will actually be eager to hear any requests that you could possibly have, because that request will be fulfilled immediately," said Musk.