In a regulatory filing in South Korea, Samsung announced it has secured a $16.5 billion multi-year deal to make chips for a “big global company.”

Chief executive officer Elon Musk is doubling down on Tesla’s AI future, signing a $US16.5bn ($25.3 billion) deal with Samsung Electronics to build its next generation AI chips in the United States.

Samsung Electronics has entered into a $16.5 billion contract for supplying semiconductors to Tesla, based on a regulatory filing by the South Korean firm and Tesla CEO Elon Musk ’s posts on X.

Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate. Samsung currently makes AI4. TSMC will make AI5, which just finished design, initially in Taiwan and then Arizona.

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In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Baby Grok, a simplified AI chatbot designed for children, is coming next after the recent launch of Grok4 with advanced training capabilities.

A regulatory filing in Korea shows that the electronics giant won an order to build chips for an unnamed large global tech company in a contract that runs through 2033, as reported by CNBC and The Korea JoongAng Daily.

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