Elon Musk: World Economic Forum, Jan 23, 2026

At the keynote on Jan 23, 2026, Elon Musk said 5 of the 12 words Kalshi listed; Parrot’s count agreed with 11 of 12 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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12 words · 5 settled yes · our count agreed on 11 of 12

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
China Yes1112✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
FSD / Full Self Driving Yes34✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Tariff Yes22✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Optimus Yes11✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Robotaxi Yes00✗–new new word, no probability yet–
Starlink No00✓36%n=2 from settlement history–
Grok / xAI No00✓34%n=2 from settlement history–
Democrat No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Gigafactory No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Iran No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Trump No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
DOGE / Department of Government Efficiency No00✓22%n=2 from settlement history–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 20, 2026 23:45 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Captions · machine-attributed · World Economic Forum (YouTube) · Source · Quotes of at most 25 words; the full recording is on the publisher's official channel.

Machine-attributed. Speaker turns are labelled by a model, not the publisher.

1 match for “Optimus”; 1 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Elon Muskspeaker23:37

…quickly. I think uh we we we do have some the Tesla Optimus robots doing simple tasks in the factory. Um we expect it it…

Where the listed words were said

Elon Muskspeaker“China” · 17:25

…be producing more chips than we can turn on. Ex- except for China. China China's China's growth in electricity is is tremendous. They're building 100…

Elon Muskspeaker“FSD / Full Self Driving” · 24:35

Uh yes, the Tesla full self-driving software we we update it sometimes once a week. Um and um recently [clears throat] some of the insurance…

Elon Muskspeaker“Tariff” · 21:30

…is As it is in China. Well, unfortunately in in the US the the the tariff barriers for solar are are extremely high [clears throat]

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