The fifth declaration in three weeks, after Roon, Raymond, Yudkowsky and Altman. Musk’s post is five words, ‘We have entered the Singularity’, in reply to @DavidSHolz on the morning of 4 January 2026 (X); the framing that this is the recursive self-improvement phase is the newsletter’s own opening line, which it backs with Stack Overflow question volume decaying to pre-launch levels. It overtakes Eric Raymond’s declaration of a week earlier and sits beside Roon’s takeoff call, Yudkowsky’s AGI conclusion and Altman’s confirmation of self-improving systems in production; a day later Musk names 2026 the year of the Singularity.
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Musk says we have entered the Singularity
The declarations stop coming only from researchers and reach the figure behind xAI, SpaceX and Tesla, and the newsletter files it under a recursive self-improvement phase it says has officially begun, with a flat Stack Overflow traffic chart as the evidence behind the sentiment.
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Elon Musk stated that we have entered the Singularity.
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- Welcome to January 4, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
- We have entered the Singularity (x.com)
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