- Elon Musk told employees at xAI that the company should build a factory on the moon to manufacture A.I. satellites and use a giant “mass driver” catapult to launch them into space. He argued that space-based infrastructure could give xAI the computing power it needs to outpace competitors.
- The comments come as Musk ties xAI more closely to SpaceX and talks openly about the moon as a steppingstone to Mars. Details were thin, timelines unclear. But the message was obvious: Musk sees the future of A.I. stretching well beyond Earth.
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