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SpaceX Makes AI Advances, With a Little Help From Cursor

By Martin Peers · Jul 8, 2026 5:01pm PDT
How about that? SpaceX’s AI unit is rolling out some AI products of value to businesses. On Wednesday, SpaceXAI—as the unit is called—and its soon-to-be subsidiary Cursor jointly introduced Grok 4.5, a model “built for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.” A week ago, SpaceX introduced a “Voice Agent Builder” enabling small businesses to... How about that? SpaceX’s AI unit is rolling out some AI products of value to businesses. On...
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How xAI Went From Chasing Anthropic to Powering It

By Grace Kay · Jun 5, 2026 6:00am PDT · 4 comments
SpaceX’s AI lab has had a chaotic year so far, churning through leaders and staff before bringing in outside help in an effort to catch up to Anthropic in coding. What isn’t widely known, however, is that xAI has played a long-running cat-and-mouse game with Anthropic as it has sought to tap into that lab’s technology to develop its own... SpaceX’s AI lab has had a chaotic year so far, churning through leaders and staff before bringing...
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The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff

By Theo Wayt · May 14, 2026 11:06am PDT
Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These departures come on top of the exits of all of xAI’s co-founders besides Elon... Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models...
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How SpaceX’s AI Unit Turned Itself Into an AI Cloud Firm

By Grace Kay · Oct 1, 2026 6:01am PDT · 1 comment
SpaceX’s AI unit held talks over the summer about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, say people familiar with the matter, a sign of how fully Elon Musk has embraced the neocloud business after his initial reluctance. Selling computing power has quickly become one of SpaceX’s most lucrative businesses, generating billions of dollars a month... SpaceX’s AI unit held talks over the summer about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, say...
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SpaceXAI Explores Major Data Center Expansion in Texas

By Grace Kay · Jul 22, 2026 6:00am PDT
Elon Musk’s AI company, SpaceXAI, is laying the groundwork for at least one new large-scale data center in Texas, three people with knowledge of the effort said. Such a move could substantially expand SpaceX’s AI computing capacity outside its existing data center hub in Memphis, Tenn. An expansion could position SpaceXAI to be a major cloud... Elon Musk’s AI company, SpaceXAI, is laying the groundwork for at least one new large-scale data...