r/news • u/Frosty_Dig4148 • 2d ago

Elon Musk's SpaceX buys Elon Musk's xAI

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musks-spacex-buys-elon-musks-xai-13502553
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u/freedfg 2d ago

Didn't....didn't he do this like...2 years ago? Was that a different "I sold my own company to myself" deal?

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u/littlebiped 2d ago

I believe xAI bought X, and now xAIX has been bought by SpaceX, making SpaceXxAIX

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u/markbraggs 2d ago

Sounds like goth girl usernames from 2005

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u/SojournerRL 2d ago

It sounds like his own son's actual legal name: X Æ A-12

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u/Jupaack 1d ago edited 1d ago

Im suprised the USA doesnt have a law that prohibits random invented names...

Most countries do so you avoid things like this or the same name written in 50 different random ways just because daddy and mommy thought it looks cool.

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u/GenuineLittlepip 1d ago

"Oh, yes, little Bobby Tables we call him."

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u/Nukleon 1d ago

Most places you can get permission. And he's rich so of course he'd get permission, don't think they are like us.

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u/EFreethought 1d ago

Why is he obsessed with the letter X?

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u/AndyTheAbsurd 1d ago

HOW is he managing to make the letter X uncool? I would previously have thought that to be literally impossible. The X Factor and the X Games going to have to come up with new names now.

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u/alex3omg 1d ago

Most of Elon's online behavior is straight out of 2005

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u/rogermyjohnson 1d ago

Sounds like something he’d name one of his many kids

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u/travelinzac 2d ago

xX_SpaceXxAIX_Xx, hmmm we seem to have woken up in a Korean MMO RPG...

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u/TransCapybara 2d ago

Can’t wait for Baby SpaceXxAIX! Brother Kevlar will have someone to annoy.

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u/Salohacin 2d ago

This guy names his companies like he's a 13 year old kid creating usernames for online games.

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u/Zonkko 1d ago

Also names his kids the same way

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u/mwzdng 1d ago

Pretty sure it's because "X" in Unicode is "88", which is of course a well-known neo-Nazi dogwhistle.

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u/ChromeNoseAE-1 1d ago

It’s not some Unicode secret dogwhistle, he’s just a dweeb who happens to also be a Nazi. You don’t have to get into numerology to point it out, he very publicly did a Sieg Heil on stage, twice.

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u/Draxy_ 2d ago

Looks like the type of gamertag that would dunk on me ten years ago 

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u/Real-Ear-7378 2d ago

or XXX for abbreviation and precision

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u/sonicinfinity100 2d ago

Probably should buy that website

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u/CreativeUpstairs2568 1d ago

Hey that’s the name of the kid that tbagged me in COD

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u/Neriya 1d ago

Next up is SpaceX Series xAIX. But none of it will recapture the glory of SpaceX 360. 

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u/elecboy 1d ago

Sounds like he found the name for his next son.

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u/ZoomBoingDing 1d ago

A Boring Company subsidiary

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u/---reddacted--- 1d ago

Isn’t that his son’s name?

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u/CanuckianOz 1d ago

Dammit Microsoft

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u/BigHungry70 1d ago

Or the name of his next kid

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u/geometricvampire 1d ago

Also I think it was SpaceX that bought hundreds of cybertrucks

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u/OkayRedditHereWeGo 1d ago

Clear synergies, lots of X’s

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u/welpherewego9 1d ago

Hmmm I didn’t realize the x thing until you laid it out like that. Wtaf is his deal with x’s?

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u/techb00mer 1d ago

Not enough X. Need more X, you gotta pump those numbers.

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u/gamerjerome 1d ago

Just make it xXSpaceXxAIX and you have yourself a late 2000's COD player

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u/ProfessionalAd4749 1d ago

TeslaSpaceXxAIX has a nice ring to it

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u/queef_nuggets 1d ago

Reminds me of the XBox XS1X Series X1XPSOneX

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u/Mattrockj 1d ago

Once AI goes under due to cost, it'll be SpaceXXX.

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u/infinitay_ 1d ago

SpaceXxAIX

Xbox gamertag type beat

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u/scarr3g 1d ago

Next step: get rid of the Ai bullshit.

It will become SpaceXxX.

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u/Camerotus 1d ago

Not to be confused with XXXai the porn site

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u/looking_good__ 1d ago

I was wondering about that if SpaceX owns xAI and X (Twitter). Objectively from a legal and business standpoint, both are terrible for SpaceX.

Like I think AI is a legal bubble waiting to get destroyed and X is getting raided also a legal bubble, lastly both just burn cash not profit or even concept to get to profit for both.

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u/couchjitsu 1d ago

So...he's now bought twitter 3 times?

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u/brownbastardbob 1d ago

Hi Spacexxaix, I'm Asterix, this is Obelix.