21 entries dated 2024 across achievements, SpaceX missions and legal records.
The Tesla-built Kapolei Energy Storage project on Oʻahu (565 MWh) helped Hawaii retire its last coal-fired power plant — a real-world grid milestone.
Neuralink implants its device in a human for the first time; the participant controls a cursor and plays chess by thought.
FSD v12 replaced roughly 300,000 lines of hand-written driving code with a single end-to-end neural network trained on video — a major architectural leap.
SpaceX’s Starshield division provides secure, government-tailored satellite services, reportedly including a large reconnaissance constellation for US intelligence.
xAI builds one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers, installing 100,000 GPUs in 122 days — a record pace.
Private astronauts perform the first non-government spacewalk and reach the highest crewed Earth orbit since Apollo.
Neuralink expands to 21+ patients with zero serious adverse events and wins an FDA breakthrough designation for a vision implant.
SpaceX catches a returning Super Heavy booster with the launch tower’s mechanical arms — a world first, on the first attempt.
Musk becomes the first person ever worth more than $400 billion — wealth built by creating companies, not inheriting them.
The Musk Foundation donated a record ~$474 million in 2024, funding causes from STEM education to the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition.
Starship completed its full-duration ascent burn and reached space for the first time, testing payload-door and propellant-transfer objectives before both stages were lost on reentry.
Both the booster and the ship survived to controlled soft splashdowns — the first time the full stack made it through reentry and landing burns intact.
The crew flew higher than anyone since Apollo and conducted the first commercial spacewalk using SpaceX-developed EVA suits.
The launch tower’s “chopstick” arms caught the returning Super Heavy booster out of the air — a landing method many called impossible and the key to rapid reuse.
The NLRB found Musk's May 2018 tweet ('Why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?') an unlawful threat and ordered it deleted. Tesla appealed to the Fifth Circuit.
NHTSA opened a probe into FSD after crashes and reports of traffic-safety violations (e.g., running red lights), citing concerns about degraded-visibility performance. The probe was upgraded to an engineering analysis covering roughly 2.4–3.2M vehicles.
NHTSA investigated Autopilot after crashes, ultimately linking 13 fatal crashes to misuse of the system. Tesla issued an over-the-air fix; NHTSA closed the original defect investigation in April 2024.
A securities-fraud suit alleged Musk misled investors with optimistic Full Self-Driving statements.
Musk sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the lab betrayed its founding non-profit, open mission by becoming a closed, for-profit Microsoft partner. He sought to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion; OpenAI countersued, calling the suit harassment by a competitor (xAI).
A Tesla shareholder challenged Musk's 2018 performance award (then worth ~$55B) as the product of a flawed, conflicted process. The Delaware Court of Chancery agreed and rescinded the package; after shareholders re-ratified it, the court reaffirmed the rescission in December 2024.
X sued the World Federation of Advertisers' Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and member brands, alleging an illegal coordinated boycott that withheld ad spending. GARM disbanded days after the suit was filed.