In a Wide-Ranging Interview, Elon Musk Talks About Visiting Mars, Battle To Keep Tesla Afloat, and Neuralink

Elon Musk reckons there's a 70 percent chance he'll go to Mars, even as he knows there's a good chance he won't survive there. 'I'm talking about moving there,' the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said in a wide-ranging, but brief interview with Axios on HBO. 'We've recently made a number of breakthroughs that I'm just really fired up about.'

In the interview, he also spoke about Neuralink, the company he launched last year to build brain-enhancing implants. 'The long-term aspiration of Neuralink would be to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence,' he said. 'If we have billions of people with a high-bandwidth link to an AI extension of themselves, it would actually make everyone hyper-smart.'

Musk also revealed that Tesla had been 'single-digit weeks' away from death with the company 'bleeding' cash as it ramped up Model 3 production. He said he was worried about imploding and that the stress of working seven days a week and sleeping at the Tesla factory was very painful.'It hurts my brain and my heart,' said Musk, who recently publicly urged people to explore electric cars, even if they come from companies Tesla competes with.

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