Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his AI firm, xAI

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired Musk’s xAI, the businesses announced. The merger will “type essentially the most formidable, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based web, direct-to-mobile gadget communications and the world’s foremost real-time data and free speech platform,” Musk wrote in an replace.

The AI firm that proper now’s greatest recognized for its CSAM-generating chatbot would possibly appear to be a wierd match for a rocket firm. However SpaceX is vital to Musk’s newest scheme to construct AI information facilities in house. In his replace, Musk wrote that “international electrical energy demand for AI merely can’t be met with terrestrial options” and that transferring the resource-intensive operations to house is “the one logical resolution.” SpaceX simply days in the past filed an utility with the FCC to create an “orbital data center” by launching 1,000,000 new satellites.

Musk additionally claimed that, finally, space-based information facilities will allow different developments in house journey. “The capabilities we unlock by making space-based information facilities a actuality will fund and allow self-growing bases on the Moon, a whole civilization on Mars and in the end enlargement to the Universe.” Notably, it’s not the primary time Musk has made lofty claims about Mars. He predicted in 2017 that SpaceX would ship crewed missions to Mars by 2024.

This additionally isn’t the primary time Musk has acquired one among his personal firms. He merged xAI and X final yr, which suggests SpaceX now owns the social community Musk purchased in 2022. And he lately introduced that Tesla was investing $2 billion into xAI. SpaceX is planning to go public later this yr in an preliminary public providing (IPO) that would worth the corporate at greater than $1 trillion, according to Bloomberg, which notes that SpaceX has additionally “mentioned a doable merger with Tesla.”