Tesla ties key employee equity to Optimus production milestones in Oct 19 proxy filing
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-20
Tesla's October 19 proxy statement explicitly lists "Optimus production and deployment" as an operational milestone for key employee equity awards, signaling it has moved past lab experiments: the company is building its first dedicated Optimus production lines, scaling compute clusters for end-to-end neural net training, and transferring years of FSD breakthroughs into general-purpose humanoid robotics. Scobleizer quips about autoworkers fearing recording means training their robotic replacements, while Tesla answers with stock.
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