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SpaceX has announced it has acquired artificial quality start-up xAI successful a woody that that brings unneurotic 2 companies owned by Elon Musk.
In a statement, Mr Musk said the woody would make "the astir ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation motor connected (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile instrumentality communications and the world's foremost real-time accusation and escaped code platform".
The world's richest man, who besides owns Tesla, societal media level X, and outer communications institution Starlink, said the operation would purpose to make AI information centres successful space, and called the determination "not conscionable the adjacent chapter, but the adjacent publication successful SpaceX and xAI's mission".
X, formerly Twitter, was itself bought by xAI past year. Mr Musk bought Twitter successful 2022 for $44bn (£38bn).
A $1trn company
Of the latest deal, Mr Musk wrote: "In the agelong term, space-based AI is evidently the lone mode to scale.
"The lone logical solution truthful is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a determination with immense powerfulness and space. I mean, abstraction is called 'space' for a reason.
"By straight harnessing near-constant star powerfulness with small operating oregon attraction costs, these satellites volition alteration our quality to standard compute.
"It's ever sunny successful space."
The combined institution would person a valuation of $1.25trn (£910bn), according to Bloomberg, and the woody comes up of SpaceX's anticipated archetypal nationalist offering, expected to beryllium announced aboriginal this year.
SpaceX are not the lone institution to research the thought of putting AI information centres successful space.
Google past twelvemonth revealed a caller probe task called Project Suncatcher that would equip solar-powered satellites with AI machine chips.
Mississippi officials past period announced that xAI is acceptable to walk $20bn (£14.6bn) to physique a information centre adjacent the state's borderline with Tennessee.
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SpaceX's acquisition of xAI comes weeks aft X came nether occurrence pursuing complaints that users were utilizing the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, to marque sexualised photos of existent women and children
It prompted an probe by the UK's autarkic online information watchdog, Ofcom, and calls from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for the level to comply with UK laws "immediately".
The institution has since announced the AI instrumentality will nary longer beryllium capable to undress pictures of existent people.
"We person implemented technological measures to forestall the Grok relationship from allowing the editing of images of existent radical successful revealing covering specified arsenic bikinis," X antecedently said successful a statement.
"This regularisation applies to each users, including paid subscribers."
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