Elon Musk's SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles his companies, creates the world's most valuable private company, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI
SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker led by Elon Musk, said on Monday it had acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by Mr. Musk.
New York Times
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Discussion
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Ryan Mac
on bluesky
Today is the third time Elon Musk has bought Twitter in four years.
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@seldo.com
Laurie Voss
on bluesky
Building data centers in space makes no sense btw and neither does this merger. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/t... [image]
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Dare Obasanjo
on bluesky
The turducken is live! — SpaceX has acquired xAI to hide two money losing products (X and Grok) in one money making business (Starlink). — I guess Elon's talks with himself to approve this deal went smoothly. 🙃
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Rob Pegoraro
on bluesky
Since Friday we've seen Blue Origin halt its space-tourism program so it can focus on building a human landing system for NASA, while SpaceX—which also owes NASA a lunar lander—will divert $250 billion in equity to ingest a money-burning AI platform so it can build 1 million data…
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Neil Cybart
on x
One thing to keep in mind when it comes to a SpaceX and Tesla combination: Most Tesla shareholders and analysts are with Musk. If he says jump, they will ask how high. As shown in the tweet below from Ives, the logic for a SpaceX and Tesla combination is basically YOLO. Also,
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@divestech
Dan Ives
on x
SpaceX and xAI combine...Tesla next? In our view there is a growing chance that Tesla will eventually be merged in some form into SpaceX/xAI over time. The view is this growing AI ecosystem will focus on Space and Earth together.....and Musk will look to combine forces 🏆🍿🐂♟️🔥
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Alex Pigman
on x
Musk Merges xAI, SpaceX to Power Space Data Centers
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@om
@om
on x
What amazing times we live in now. A $16 billion funding for @Waymo (congrats team, ❤️the product) is an afterthought thanks to the mega deal between @SpaceX & @xai It might be the smartest deal of the year or simply the best value enhancement since the Kardashian Clan