Elon Musk has supported Larry Page's reported idea about the future of space exploration using Von Neumann probes. He said that the civilization would be "winning wondrously" if Page's prediction comes true by 2100.Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, recently shared his conversation with Larry Page about space exploration. He spoke about it on an episode of The Builders with Isaacson, released on October 29. He said that the Google co-founder told him that humans could explore space by the end of the century.Recalling his conversation with Page, Suleyman said:“Yeah, I remember in 2015 being in the canteen at SpaceX. And we had our first meeting of the Ethics and Safety Board. So when we sold DeepMind to Google, we made it a condition of our acquisition that we would have an Ethics and Safety Board with independent representation on the board."Suleyman said that they picked Elon Musk as one of the three independent members for the board. He added that he then had lunch with Larry Page, saying:“And he said, you know, I think that what you don’t understand, Mustafa, is that by the end of the century, I’m going to be exploring the galaxies at the head of a von Neumann probe, which means a von Neumann probe is a kind of self-propelling kind of robot that is able to gather energy from space as it’s careening through the light years.”Elon Musk has reacted to this on X (formerly Twitter), writing:"Our civilization would be winning wondrously if we are exploring the galaxy with Von Neumann probes by 2100! Larry Page might be right. He has correctly predicted many things."The Von Neumann probe is named after the legendary mathematician and physicist John von Neumann. It is a hypothetical self-replicating spacecraft that could explore space more deeply and over greater distances than current technology. Also Read: "This is just the beginning": Patrick Bet-David reacts after Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly buys $173M properties to avoid $15B in taxesElon Musk has previously claimed that Tesla's Optimus will become a Von Neumann probeElon Musk Joins President Trump For Signing Executive Orders In The Oval Office - Source: GettyElon Musk has been working on numerous space projects, claiming that his company hopes to colonize Mars and beyond. One of Tesla's projects is named Optimus, and Musk has claimed multiple times that it would be the first Von Neumann probe. He backed it to become the first Von Neumann probe in November 2025. He reiterated it in March 2026, writing on X:"Optimus+PV will be the first Von Neumann probe, a machine fully capable of replicating itself using raw materials found in space"In June, he wrote that a "legion" of Optimus "combined with solar panels" will become the Von Neumann probe. He also claimed that Optimus will be "capable of building civilization by itself on any viable planet."In another post, he explained that you need mass or substrate to build civilization on a planet. He added:"It is extremely inefficient to keep moving the mass out of some planetary gravity well to grow and the asteroid belt is too far away and too spread out."The SpaceX founder then asserted that Optimus will be able to "convert that local mass to civilization very efficiently."Also Read: How much did Elon Musk pay for Twitter? Sneako accuses SpaceX boss of using it to allegedly spread "Mossad propaganda"