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Mary said GM understands Chinese competitors from JV experience and benchmarking. Focused on competing with better vehicles on a level playing field. Would not speculate on Chinese OEM access to US market.

Mary confirmed focus on personal autonomy, not robotaxi fleet operations. Said people still want car ownership freedom. Super Cruise enjoying approximately 70% margins. Will share 2026 AV milestones at GM Forward Media Day and into next year.

Mary cited brand strength, design, efficiency improvements in architecture, weight, and batteries. Paul added GM's manufacturing flexibility to switch between ICE and EV absorbs fixed costs better than pure-play EV competitors exposed to volatile demand in narrow segments.

Mary referenced NASA Robonaut history and GM Robotics legacy. Focused on safety, ergonomics, and difficult tasks first. Also pursuing winning-with-simplicity part design changes. Active workforce training program with community colleges for automation skills.

Mary said efficiency starts with smart vehicle design for easier assembly. Already using robots and cobots for difficult jobs. Has partnerships for latest technology. New head of AI hired to drive AI across business.

Mary confirmed 230K Super Cruise units added YoY with 100% growth rate. Expects over 700K equipped vehicles by year-end. Catching up from semiconductor shortage period when Super Cruise was omitted from builds.

Mary pushed back, saying current Chinese overcapacity and subsidies don't represent a level playing field. Focused on leveraging GM's own North American capacity rather than helping Chinese partners access U.S.

Mary said the $1B annualized savings from stopping robotaxi captures the compute spend needed. Super Cruise fleet expected to roughly double in 2025. Targeting $2B annual Super Cruise revenue within five years.

Musk said competitors do frame-by-frame copy of AI Day slides so he is cautious, but suggested the Annual Shareholder Meeting could double as a partial AI showcase with Optimus robots onstage.

Musk confirmed this is a major concern and said he hopes it is addressed at the upcoming shareholders' meeting, framing it as a need for influence not total control.

Musk said China dominates drones but Tesla leads humanoid robotics, with ranks 2-10 likely to be Chinese companies.

Musk distanced himself, saying he is one of many advisors to the president and the decision is the president's.

Musk said the US needs to make manufacturing cool again and redirect talent from law and finance, but gave no quantified supply-chain plan.

Musk reiterated Tesla's vision-only stance, citing the road system's design around passive optical signals.

Galhotra flagged rare earth import complications from China as potential production disruptor, noting even a few parts shortages could halt production.

Galhotra said Ford is not directly pursuing humanoid robotics but deploying AI in manufacturing, PD, and quality including Boston Dynamics robots for plant monitoring.

Farley highlighted internal Level 2+/3 capabilities from ex-Argo talent and said Ford is closer to a Level 4 partnership decision, but did not commit to a specific strategy.

Farley acknowledged Chinese subsidies and data privacy concerns but emphasized management must compete toe-to-toe on cost and product, not rely on tariff protection.

Claire said the DOE loan is construction/project finance requiring on-site capital deployment in Georgia, which has not yet started, but Rivian intends to draw given the attractive cost of capital.

RJ argued that high-quality data from a best-in-class multimodal sensor set, controlled triggering, and low-cost Wi-Fi data movement let Rivian offset a smaller fleet in training its end-to-end model.

RJ explained the AI-centric autonomy architecture and said GPU access can be structured as CapEx, rented capacity or off-balance-sheet arrangements, so training capacity need not require Rivian to deploy the capital itself.

Kevin disclosed ~$400M A&D revenue growing fast, plus energy distribution and robotics/humanoid opportunities as adjacent TAMs.

Winterhoff said shifting AI goalposts have Lucid weighing partnerships versus in-house autonomy, with a near-term hands-free rollout, but no decision yet.