en.Wedoany.com Reported - Dover, Delaware, USA, May 6, 2026 Local Time — Elon Musk, shareholder and CEO of U.S. company SpaceX, announced on the social media platform X that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, will be formally dissolved as an independent corporate entity and rebranded entirely as "SpaceXAI," positioned as SpaceX's artificial intelligence product business unit.
Musk's statement was a reply to investor Sawyer Merrillt regarding the dynamics of cooperation between SpaceX and Anthropic. This announcement of the name change and dissolution of the independent entity is essentially the continuation and final conclusion of the inter-company merger between SpaceX and xAI completed in February 2026. On February 2 of that year, SpaceX officially announced the completion of its acquisition of xAI in an all-stock transaction, which pushed the combined entity's overall valuation to $1.25 trillion, with SpaceX valued at approximately $1 trillion and xAI at approximately $250 billion. About three months later, Musk's public confirmation formally declared that xAI no longer exists as an independent legal entity.
This integration aims to deeply bind artificial intelligence with aerospace technology. Musk stated that the integrated layout of AI and aerospace resources is accelerating, with the goal of creating an integrated platform combining "AI, Space, and Chips." The merged entity will achieve deep integration of AI algorithms, reusable rockets, the Starlink network, direct-to-mobile device communications, and a global real-time information platform. In a previous statement on SpaceX's official website, the merged company was described as the most vertically integrated innovation engine on Earth and beyond.
Behind the merger lies months of deep management restructuring. SpaceX senior executive and Starlink business Senior Vice President Michael Nicholls was appointed President of xAI in April 2026, admitting that xAI was "significantly behind" competitors and that actions were being taken to catch up quickly. Furthermore, the 11-person co-founding team of xAI since its inception in 2023 had all departed as of March 30, 2026. With Ross Nordeen's departure this week, xAI has officially entered a comprehensive personnel rebuilding phase post-merger. Meanwhile, SpaceX Director of Software Engineering Daniel Dueri has been ordered to lead xAI's computing infrastructure business, and Starlink Software Director Matt Monson has begun concurrently overseeing xAI's data business. This series of high-pressure restructurings means the merger is not a simple capital operation, but a thorough reshaping of xAI from management to technology.
On the application prospects front, a landmark cooperation signal also materialized on the same day. On the very day Musk announced the dissolution of xAI, SpaceX was reported to be reaching a cooperation agreement with Anthropic, under which the latter will access SpaceX's large-scale data center named "Colossus 1," utilizing over 300 megawatts of computing power resources. Anthropic also indicated it may seek to jointly develop orbital AI computing systems with SpaceX at the gigawatt scale in the future. This signifies that SpaceX is monetizing its computing power assets by exporting them to external AI companies, with Colossus 1 becoming the first commercial anchor point for its computing power monetization.
Simultaneously, Musk is also tallying the high costs of this integration. According to foreign media estimates on the same day, SpaceX is planning a semiconductor factory called "Terafab" with investments up to $55 billion, potentially reaching $119 billion in total future investment, aiming to manufacture its own AI chips to support its massive data centers and robotics applications. However, despite the vast scale of computing power, the test of market demand remains unresolved—as external commercial demand for the Grok model still needs validation, some of xAI's computing power currently remains idle.
Examining the historical context, xAI was founded by Musk in 2023, with its flagship model being the large language model Grok. On the other side, SpaceX, founded in 2002, has grown into the world's largest private rocket and satellite internet company. Regarding the highly anticipated public listing plan, SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with a fundraising scale of up to $75 billion. If it proceeds smoothly, it is expected to surpass Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record in 2019, potentially becoming the largest IPO in global history. The merged new company's valuation could challenge over $1.75 trillion, directly placing it among the top global tech companies by market capitalization.
This thorough integration also comes with clear regulatory and legal risks. The merged entity will control energy, transportation, communications, and AI computing power, facing a high probability of antitrust and national security review interventions. Meanwhile, the antitrust lawsuit previously filed by Musk's X Corp and xAI against Apple and OpenAI is still pending. Bloomberg previously noted that the massive entity created by the merger will continue to spark extensive discussion in legal and market spheres.
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