Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n ˈ r iː v m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and Twitter (which he rebranded as X).Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to United States president Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
In March 1999, [15] Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company with $12 million of the money he made from the Compaq acquisition. [16] X.com was one of the first online banks that was federally insured, and over 200,000 customers joined in its initial months of operation.
According to Musk, the crucial component for a sustainable Mars program is a low launch cost. [ 1 ] : 11–12 In early 2002, with that realization, Musk met with aerospace engineers at a hotel in Los Angeles International Airport to discuss founding a space launch company, with reportedly some having scoffed at the idea.
In early 2001, Elon Musk met Robert Zubrin and donated $100,000 to his Mars Society, joining its board of directors for a short time. [13]: 30–31 He gave a plenary talk at their fourth convention where he announced Mars Oasis, a project to land a greenhouse and grow plants on Mars.
It is the first Grok model with image generation capabilities. [45] On October 21, 2024, xAI released an applications programming interface (API). [46] On December 9, 2024, xAI released a text-to-image model named Aurora. [47] On February 15, Elon Musk, the founder of xAI, announced the release of Grok 3, and Grok 3 currently tops LLM leaderboards.
Musk also announced that Grok is expected to introduce a multimodal voice mode within a week and that Grok-2 will be open-sourced in the coming months. [40] Hours after the announcement, X raised the price of its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, up from $22. [42] Grok-3 was made available to free users on February 20, 2025 for a "short ...
In 2025, Elon Musk and Department of Government Efficiency teams gained access to large parts of the United States federal government, forcing thousands of United States federal government employees out of their jobs, removing public records from the Internet, attempting to shutdown or terminate entire departments and agencies of the government, creating large amounts of controversy and ...
Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco. In December 2015, OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk as the co-chairs.