Elon Musk says SpaceX's AI revenue will outpace all its other products by next month
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX expects revenue from its AI initiatives to surpass all other company revenue streams by next month. The company plans to train its Grok large language models on internal SpaceX data, including employee information.
Why it matters
The pivot toward AI-driven revenue and the use of internal employee data for model training raises significant questions regarding corporate strategy and data privacy.
Elon Musk said SpaceX's AI revenue would exceed that of its other products. Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Elon Musk is bullish on AI bringing lots of cash into SpaceX in the near future. He said revenue from AI would outpace all other SpaceX revenue by next month. The executive also said that Grok would be trained on all SpaceX information, including its employees. Elon Musk has predicted that AI will earn SpaceX more money than its other offerings. On Tuesday, SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands recording on X that CEO Elon Musk held with employees, during which he said AI has become an "extremely important part of SpaceX's future." "Probably our AI revenue — not probably, definitely — our AI revenue will exceed all other SpaceX revenue probably in September, like next month," Musk said in his speech.
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