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    "parsed_content": "Artificial IntelligenceRomance Novels\u2018A.I.-Washing\u2019Grok ControversyElectricity CostsAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTElon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the MoonIn a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.Listen to this article \u00b7 4:05 min Learn moreShare full articleElon Musk told employees of xAI that he plans to put a factory on the moon as a steppingstone to colonizing Mars.Credit...Eric Lee\/The New York TimesBy Kate Conger and Ryan MacKate Conger reported from San Francisco and Ryan Mac from New York.Feb. 10, 2026Sign up for the On Tech newsletter. Get our best tech reporting from the week. Get it sent to your inbox.Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday evening that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.Inspired by the billionaire\u2019s love of science fiction, the space catapult would be called a mass driver, and would be part of an imagined lunar facility that manufactured satellites to provide the computing power for the company\u2019s A.I.\u201cYou have to go to the moon,\u201d Mr. Musk said during an all-hands meeting, which was heard by The New York Times. The move would help xAI harness more power than other companies to build its A.I., he said.\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about, but it\u2019s going to be incredibly exciting to see it happen,\u201d he added.Last week, Mr. Musk said he was merging xAI with his rocket business, SpaceX, to facilitate his plans to create A.I. data centers in outer space. Now that vision has expanded to include the lunar facility, though he did not say in his hourlong talk, which also featured remarks from other executives, how it could be built.Those two arms of Mr. Musk\u2019s business empire are merging as SpaceX prepares an initial public offering, which could come as early as June. A representative for xAI did not respond to a request for comment.Mr. Musk\u2019s fixation with the moon is a recent one. Since founding SpaceX in 2002, he has said making humanity multiplanetary, first by establishing a colony on Mars, was the company\u2019s raison d\u2019\u00eatre. But in recent months, he has posted frequently on X, his social media platform, about the company\u2019s new focus: the moon.Two former SpaceX executives told The Times, on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about corporate plans, that the moon had never been a main focus of the company.In his remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Musk described the moon as a steppingstone to Mars. First, he said, the company would build \u201ca self-sustaining city on the moon,\u201d then travel to Mars and finally explore star systems in search of aliens.ImageThe Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters of xAI, which is merging with Mr. Musk\u2019s rocket company, SpaceX.Credit...Manuel Orbegozo for The New York TimesMr. Musk also talked about more earthly concerns with workers. Alongside executives from X, which he merged with xAI last year, Mr. Musk described the social network\u2019s progress and where he hopes it will go.X has about 600 million monthly active users, Mr. Musk said, a metric that The Times was not able to verify. When he acquired the company, then known as Twitter, in 2022, it said it had 237.8 million daily active users who were able to view ads.\u201cMost people only occasionally come to the X app when there\u2019s some major world event,\u201d Mr. Musk said. But he said the addition of more services in the coming months \u2014 such as a banking feature called X Money and a stand-alone chat app \u2014 would make X more appealing.\u201cWe\u2019ll obviously give people reasons, compelling reasons, to use the app every day and have, my expectation is, well over a billion daily active users,\u201d he said.Mr. Musk has made bold and sometimes inaccurate predictions about when he will be able to introduce new technologies. In 2016, for instance, he said SpaceX would send its first cargo to Mars by 2018, a mission that has yet to materialize.But he told employees that he expected xAI to continue to grow quickly, even as he hinted at the loss of early-stage employees and a possible reorganization of the company.\u201cIf you\u2019re moving faster than anyone else in any given technology arena, you will be the leader, and xAI is moving faster than any other company \u2014 no one\u2019s even close,\u201d Mr. Musk said. \u201cBecause we\u2019ve reached a certain scale, we\u2019re organizing the company to be more effective at this scale. And actually, when this happens, there\u2019s some people who are better suited for the early stages of a company and less suited for the later stages.\u201dKate Conger is a technology reporter based in San Francisco. She can be reached at kate.conger@nytimes.com.Ryan Mac covers corporate accountability across the global technology industry.See more on: SpaceX, X (Formerly Twitter), Elon MuskShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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