Not really strange... if the goal is to go to mars, you probably need robots, those need intelligence -> ai. It fits pretty well, especially because you want to own all the core technologies as a company.

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thefounder 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wow…sounds like some kindergarten stuff

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why 4-5 companies instead of one then? I thought the goal of SpaceX was to get to Mars, why does xAI need to have that same goal? Or he didn't think xAI was suitable for that goal, then changed his mind so merged the companies?

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stuxnet79 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are overthinking this. The whole purpose of the SpaceX / xAI merger is for Musk to launder his failing companies to make them more palatable to the public. Not unlike the complex Mortgage Backed Securities of the GFC era which had a ton of low quality debt but yet were somehow assigned spotless credit ratings. Twitter is also being rolled up into SpaceX for the same reason.

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trollbridge 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I sure wish my company were failing the same way Musk’s allegedly are.

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jerojero 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The stated goal is to "go to mars", the real goal is to make money.

He sold his failing but hype business to his soon-to-IPO successful but kinda boring business.

It's a way of laundering the debt and dumping into investors as he pitted different indexes against each other to force his way into one of them, and have people's 401k buy into them. Its a ton of money.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla is bought into spaceX in the future.

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cityzen 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He’s a drug addict and sociopath. Also has very thin skin (and hair) so he does stupid shit. Somehow we are all left holding the bag on his BS.

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