Elon Musk Plans Moon Catapult To Launch AI Because Earth Is Just Too Mainstream

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KEY POINTS

•Elon Musk outlined xAI's restructure after merging with SpaceX, leaving six of the original twelve team members.
•Musk revealed a plan to build a mass driver on the moon for launching AI satellites, aiming to surpass a terawatt per year of compute power.
•xAI plans to launch standalone XChat and XMoney apps soon, with XMoney promising to centralize all monetary transactions within the platform.

In a cosmic twist fit for the Space Oddity podcast, Elon Musk held xAI's first all-hands meeting post-SpaceX merger, unveiling plans that rocket past corporate restructures—six members remain from the original dozen, because why not streamline by half right before moonshots? Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba jumped ship this week, thanks for the journey, now back to Earth. Musk’s vision: a self-sustaining lunar city complete with a mass driver catapult, flinging AI satellites off the moon, presumably bypassing Earth's tired electric bills that bumped up 31%. Meanwhile, Grok anything is the catchall product suite, with apps like XChat and XMoney promising to replace your awkward group texts and maybe your wallet. Because when the mundane world’s utility costs bite, just shoot your data center to lunar orbit. Sundar Pichai’s Google is apparently also bidding for celestial real estate. The future is apparently a hot mess hurtling towards Mars and potential alien meet-and-greets. Buckle up.

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Elon Musk ditching half his start-up team while plotting moon-powered AI catapults is exactly the leadership strategy midlife crises were designed for.

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