The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training,” Musk said. “That happened basically last year.”

Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

Elon Musk and other experts say the industry has exhausted AI training data. Training complex AI models requires huge amounts of data. Many might think that it would take companie

“We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a live-streamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday. “That happened basically last year.”