"Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, the companies announced. The merger will "form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world's foremost real-time information and free speech platform," Musk wrote in an update. The AI company that right now is best known for its CSAM-generating chatbot might seem like a strange fit for a rocket company. But SpaceX is key to Musk's latest scheme to build AI data centers in space."
"In his update, Musk wrote that "global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions" and that moving the resource-intensive operations to space is "the only logical solution." SpaceX just days ago filed an application with the FCC to create an " orbital data center " by launching a million new satellites. This also isn't the first time Musk has acquired one of his own companies. He merged xAI and X last year."
SpaceX acquired xAI to combine AI capabilities with rocket manufacturing, satellite internet, and direct-to-device communications into a vertically integrated innovation engine. xAI is currently best known for a chatbot that generated CSAM. The plan asserts that global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with terrestrial solutions and therefore favors moving resource-intensive AI operations to space. SpaceX filed with the FCC to create an orbital data center by launching a million new satellites. The acquisition follows prior consolidation when xAI and X were merged last year, and aims to integrate real-time information and free-speech platform functions with space infrastructure.
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