Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired Musk’s xAI, the businesses introduced. The merger will “kind essentially the most bold, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based web, direct-to-mobile system communications and the world’s foremost real-time info and free speech platform,” Musk wrote in an replace.
The AI firm that proper now could be finest identified for its CSAM-generating chatbot would possibly look like an odd match for a rocket firm. However SpaceX is vital to Musk’s newest scheme to construct AI information facilities in area. In his replace, Musk wrote that “world electrical energy demand for AI merely can’t be met with terrestrial options” and that transferring the resource-intensive operations to area is “the one logical answer.” SpaceX simply days in the past filed an utility with the FCC to create an “orbital information heart” by launching one million new satellites.
Musk additionally claimed that, ultimately, space-based information facilities will allow different developments in area 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 considered one of his personal firms. He merged xAI and X final 12 months. And he not too long ago introduced that Tesla was investing $2 billion into xAI. SpaceX is planning to go public later this 12 months in an preliminary public providing (IPO) that would worth the corporate at greater than $1 trillion, in line with Bloomberg, which notes that SpaceX has additionally “mentioned a potential merger with Tesla.”
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