Musk says SpaceX is putting top Starship and Starlink engineers to work on Grok
10 hours ago
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- SpaceX is intensifying its focus on AI by reassigning top Starlink and Starship engineers to improve its Grok model.
- The company is integrating engineers from the recently acquired AI coding startup Cursor, which is valued at $60 billion, to work on new foundation models.
- Grok 4.5 is currently in private beta at Tesla and SpaceX, with plans to release new models monthly throughout the year.
- Musk has restructured xAI, merging it with SpaceX, to address lagging performance compared to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, particularly in coding.
- SpaceX aims to leverage its $85 billion IPO windfall to build a network of orbital data centers for training advanced AI models, with AI representing a $26.5 trillion market opportunity.