In an effort to save tech bloggers from so much annoying writing, xAI has finally been renamed:
now we are @SpaceXAI. pic.twitter.com/ema66xDWC9
— SpaceXAI (@SpaceXAI) July 6, 2026
I am elated. Do you have any idea how much I’ve dreaded writing about “xAI,” with its initial lowercase letter? How I hated explaining that the operator of the Elon Musk-owned chatbot Grok was acquired by SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk in February, before SpaceX became public last month?
The animation in SpaceXAI’s post X (did I forget to mention that SpaceXAI owns X?) is, of course, embarrassing, aesthetically speaking. Watch in awe as the xAI logo, which looked like it was created ten minutes ahead of schedule in graphic design class, contorts into the famous, beautiful, and beloved style of the SpaceX logo—a stunning metamorphosis. Now you have to squint to even see the AI part.
But, logo aside, it’s a big win in terms of clarity. It’s SpaceX… AI. SpaceXAI. I don’t have to explain anything anymore.
In March, Elon Musk said that SpaceXAI’s flagship product, Grok, was so flawed that it needed to be “rebuilt from the foundation.” SpaceX then The Cursor purchase process beganan AI coding tool. Since then, Musk has reclaimed that Grok is moving toward a “major improvement.”
The base model Grok V9-Medium (1.5T) has completed its training. The evaluations look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in the supplemental training and there is more to come.
Adjustments are being made and reinforcement learning will begin in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks for public release.
This…
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 25, 2026
Last year, the company reportedly called xAI spent 6.4 billion dollars—double your income. However, SpaceX’s AI division is absolutely central to Elon Musk’s narrative about the future of SpaceX as historically massive company worldwide with a “total addressable market” of $28.5 trillion. In this story, space infrastructure and space exploration must be inextricably linked to AI.
The SpaceX prospectus puts it in these terms:
We believe that AI infrastructure in space can harness the virtually unlimited power of the Sun and therefore enable the use of AI as a transformative force to understand the universe and improve the daily lives of all humans.
Elon Musk has also recited a version of this concept in oratory form, as he did during a general meeting of xAI workers in February. That version contained extravagant embellishments like this:
So the next step beyond Earth data centers is Earth orbital data centers, and we will launch, with SpaceX, orbital data centers at the 100 to 200 gigawatt per year level. Not cumulative. I mean per year. And ultimately, we see a path to perhaps launch up to a terawatt per year of computing from Earth.
But what if we want to go beyond a simple terawatt per year? To do that you have to go to the moon.
Anyway, good luck to the folks at SpaceXAI who, in theory, have to accomplish all of this while their parent company continues to infiltrate our stock markets despite the company’s governance structure. making it impossible to fire Muskno matter what happens. Silly or not, this man’s wild ideas now have so much acceptance of our heritage classthey it has to be true nowor we could all be screwed.
