A SpaceX Starship spacecraft rolls out toward its launch pad past the Starbase Manufacturing Facility before its 10th test flight from the company’s complex in Starbase, Texas, on Aug. 23, 2025. Steve Nesius/Reuters
Two of entrepreneur Elon Musk’s most pioneering companies, SpaceX and xAI, merged Monday with a combined goal of launching a “constellation of a million satellites” to operate as orbital data centers to power artificial intelligence (AI) innovations back on Earth.
SpaceX acquired xAI to accelerate humanity’s future, according to a news release, by developing the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on and off Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications, and Musk’s social media platform X.
