Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reached a new all-time high of $488 on Tuesday, December 16, and artificial intelligence (AI) suggests that the $500 Tesla stock price target could be in reach sooner than you think.
Based on Finbold’s inquiries that incorporated relevant market data as of December 17, OpenAI’s flagship large language model (LLM), ChatGPT-5.2, has argued that Tesla stock is ‘very close’ to $500 and could potentially reach the milestone in a matter of weeks, with TSLA shares trading above $490 in pre-market at the time of publication.
Considering the company’s advancements with its Robotaxi testing this week and CEO Elon Musk’s growing emphasis on recent technological trends, ChatGPT cited optimism around autonomous driving and AI as the key catalysts.
However, the chatbot has also left some room for doubt, cautioning that the outlook depends on whether investor sentiment and momentum can hold up. Likewise, it noted that many analysts still see fair value below $500, meaning it’s easy to argue the stock is currently overpriced based on fundamentals like earnings, growth, and demand for electric vehicles (EV), which is getting slower in Europe.
When will Tesla stock reach $500?
Asked to make a more specific, market-data-backed guess as to when TSLA shares might trade at $500, the machine learning algorithm suggested the figure could become reality in the next two to six weeks “if the market stays constructive.”
That would mean that Tesla investors’ long-standing dream of $500 per share would come true somewhere in late January or mid-February 2026.
As such, the prediction given by the artificial intelligence generally is fairly bullish but still cautious in the short run and sits somewhere in the middle compared to analyses issued by human analysts this week.
Since Monday, December 15, Tesla stock price target for the next 12 months has received one upgrade from Mizuho Securities (from $475 to $530) and a fair bit of praise from Webdush, but Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs still see a 13.24% and 18.35% potential downside, respectively, with their reiterated price targets of $425 and $400.
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