Framework
Discoveries Over Data
Elon's back-burner thesis for the next phase of business.
How it works
- 1The Library of Alexandria era: lifetimes spent accessing 1% of knowledge.
- 2The internet era: all knowledge available, years spent assembling it.
- 3The AI era: knowledge compressed into models that can deduct.
- 4The next phase of business is selling new discoveries, not more data, via agents that constantly connect dots across industries and generate novel concepts to explore.
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