""Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you," CEO Elon Musk proclaimed yesterday following a restructuring that saw a stream of former executives exit the AI lab. This is an interesting recruitment strategy after the company's merger with Musk's rocket maker, SpaceX, and the combined company's anticipated IPO. You might think that xAI employees ought to be fascinated with achieving AGI, using deep learning models to disrupt traditional software companies, or simply bad wordplay like "Macrohard.""
"After outlining plans to build AI data centers in orbit, the primary synergy between the two companies, Musk took the idea further. "What if you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year?" Musk asked. "To do that, you have to go to the moon...I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space.""
"If that all feels a bit much, veteran Musk watchers know there's a clue about where the discussion appears in a video of an all-hands meeting xAI shared with the public. The slide describing the Moon base comes at the end of the presentation deck, where, during SpaceX pep talks, Musk typically shares renderings of SpaceX rockets landing on Mars and waxes rhapsodic about the future of multi-planetary humanity."
xAI merged with SpaceX and the combined company anticipates an IPO. A restructuring at xAI prompted a stream of former executives to exit. Elon Musk framed recruitment around ambitious lunar projects, pitching mass drivers on the Moon as an attraction. Musk outlined plans to build AI data centers in orbit and proposed a lunar manufacturing city to produce space computers. He envisioned using a mass driver or maglev system to hurl AI satellites and larger machines into deep space. The Moonbase slide appeared at the end of an all‑hands presentation and invoked the Kardashev Scale as a scaling metaphor.
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