Over a year ago, we connected some dots that some others had noticed too…

Musk’s ventures—cars, tunnels, satellites, brain chips—aren’t one man’s attempt to do everything. 

Instead, they’re one guy’s attempt to do just one thing.

Once you see it, it becomes obvious. It’s not like he’s been quiet about it, either. It’s just that it sounds too big for most people to take seriously.

So we nod when he says “multiplanetary,” then go back to scrolling.

But he wasn’t joking.

He’s laying the pipes for a second civilization.

Allow me to explain. And show how 2025 hasn’t broken the pattern—it’s only extended it, proof that Musk’s projects keep compounding into one massive, unstoppable trend.

One Goal. Six Pipes.

The story used to be that Elon Musk was running five different companies.

Cars. Rockets. X Corp. Brain chips. Tunnels.

Now he’s added an AI lab with the biggest GPU cluster on Earth. And, at the same time, the old story is fading.

Today, if you look at 2025 in the right light, you can see it’s not five or six companies.

Musk has one company. One vertical stack.

And the product isn’t a car or a chatbot.

It’s Mars.

Starship: The Real Product Demo

In May, Musk casually announced he’d try to send five unmanned Starships to Mars in 2026. No people.

He called it a “50/50 chance.”

And no, this isn’t just talk.

At Cape Canaveral’s LC-39A, SpaceX has been pouring the flame trench, plumbing the tank farm, and wiring up the Starship pad—they could be ready as soon as late 2025 (though mid-2026 is more realistic).

Meanwhile, the FAA signed off on an environmental review that allows up to 25 Starship launches per year from South Texas, clearing the way for a much faster cadence (subject to licensing).

Humans haven’t landed on another world since Apollo 17 in 1972. If Musk hits his 2026 window, the first footprints back won’t be human—they’ll be robotic.

Tesla: Infest Space With Robots

When Musk lands Starship on Mars, guess who steps out first? Not human astronauts. But not nobody.

Optimus.

Musk says Optimus will be 80% of Tesla’s value.

Eight-zero.

And a good chunk of that value will come from his newest company, xAI.

You know, the one that built the world’s largest supercomputer in a Memphis warehouse—122 days from zero to “Colossus.” Fully stocked with over two hundred thousand Nvidia GPUs.

For reference, OpenAI’s GPT-4 training run was rumored to use ~25,000 GPUs. Colossus has 8 times that. It’s enough horsepower to train multiple frontier models at once, or retrain a GPT-class model in weeks instead of months.

And the AI it produced—Grok 4—is, by many metrics (according to standard benchmarks), “the smartest AI in the world.”

That same AI is now running inside Tesla’s robots and even powering Starlink’s customer service. That same AI will be helping to run the Mars mission.

And speaking of Starlink…

Starlink: Mars Already Filed

By August, SpaceX had 8,000 satellites in orbit. Six million people are paying for Starlink on Earth.

But buried in a 2024 filing was the master plan: a Marslink constellation. A handful of satellites orbiting Mars, shooting data back to Earth.

And maybe from a Neuralink…

Neuralink put brain chips in five humans this year. They can shop online and move cursors just by thinking.

On Earth, it’s framed as a disability aid. On Mars, it’s something else: teleoperation.

Imagine teleoperating an Optimus from the safety of a dome while it builds a solar farm outside in minus-80 degrees.

That’s not sci-fi anymore. That’s a feature in beta.

The Boring Company: Practice Tunneling Mars

Radiation is brutal on Mars.

The short-term solution? Live underground.

Conveniently, his tunneling company is now showing autonomous tunnel-boring machines that don’t need humans inside.

This year, they signed deals to dig in Dubai and Nashville. Every mile of tunnel dug on Earth is practice for carving out habitats under Martian soil.

Connecting the Dots

So let’s add it up.

• Rockets the size of buildings.
• Robots that walk and talk.
• AI brains running on the largest computer ever built.
• An internet already planned for Mars orbit.
• Brain chips linking humans to machines.
• Tunnels to live in underground.

It looks scattered. But it’s not.

It’s a stack. A single machine with many moving parts.

And the output isn’t an app or a car or even a rocket. The output is a city on Mars.

In 2025, Musk updated the plan without saying it out loud.

Every move—from the Memphis supercomputer to Optimus demos to FAA launch permits—shows the mission is still Mars.

The craziest part?

It all seems to be going according to plan.