Elon Musk’s SpaceX to take over Elon Musk’s AI firm in $1,000,000,000,000 deal

The world’s richest man might get even richer (Picture: Getty/Shutterstock/Reuters)

Two of Elon Musk’s firms – SpaceX and xAI – have merged to become the world’s most valued company in the world at more than $1.25 trillion.

The billionaire’s rocket and satellite maker acquired the smaller AI startup last night, according to a blog post from Musk on the SpaceX website.

The acquisition brings together xAI – which faced a flood of criticism for its AI chatbot Grok producing sexualised images of women and children ...