Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed on Thursday that his company's Optimus humanoid robots could eventually make the automaker worth more than half of that.
As for shareholder value, Musk said Optimus could be the catalyst for lifting Tesla's market cap to $25 trillion someday.
The company, he predicted, will have "over 1,000, or a few thousand, Optimus robots working at Tesla" in 2025.
Getting to a $25 trillion market cap would mean that Tesla would be worth about eight times Apple's value today.
He did say that autonomous vehicles could get the company to a market cap of $5 trillion to $7 trillion.
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