As Musk shifts the focus of his space business to the moon, the world's richest man has drawn a new "pie" for global investors:Build an artificial intelligence satellite factory on the moon and configure a giant catapult to launch the satellite into space.It is reported that Musk expressed the above vision at the employee meeting of artificial intelligence company xAI on Tuesday evening local time.
Musk emphasized at the meeting,This move will help xAI gain more computing power to build artificial intelligence. "It's hard to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would be thinking, but seeing it actually happen would be incredibly exciting in itself," he said.
Inspired by the science fiction novel "Hard Moon," Musk also called the lunar catapult a "mass driver" as a supporting infrastructure for a complete set of computing satellite production facilities.
Last week, Musk merged xAI with private aerospace giant SpaceX. At that time, he only stated that he would build an artificial intelligence data center in outer space. Just a week later, the idea has expanded to the lunar surface.
It should be noted that since Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, his goal has always been to make humans a "multi-planetary species"-the first goal is to establish a Mars base. But in recent months, he has begun to focus more and more on the moon.
In his speech on Tuesday, Musk described the moon asSpringboard to Mars, also known asThe company will first build a "self-sustaining" city on the moon before heading to Mars, and finally embarked on a pioneering journey to find extraterrestrial life.
In a social media post last weekend, Musk explained,There is a launch window to Mars only every 26 months, and a one-way journey takes six months. But it can launch to the moon every 10 days and arrive in two days, so the iterative completion of lunar city construction is much faster than that of a Mars city.
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He also admitted that the goal of building a lunar city may be achieved within 10 years, while a Mars city will take at least 20 years.
Revealing the development vision of “Upgraded WeChat”
It should be noted that xAI, which merged with SpaceX, just acquired X last year, which hosted Musk’s “upgraded version of WeChat” (WeChat++). X was formerly the social media company Twitter, which was privatized and delisted after being acquired by Musk. The world’s richest man revealed that the current number of monthly active users of X is about 600 million.
Musk also talked about his vision for the X on Tuesday. "Most people only open the X app when there's a major world event, and we're obviously going to give people reasons, compelling reasons to use it every day," he said.My expectation is that daily active users will be well over one billion. "
The world's richest man said that more services will be launched in the coming months, such as a banking function called X Money and an "independent chat application".
As for the successive departures of the xAI founding team, Musk also responded indirectly on Tuesday.
He said: "In any technology track, as long as you advance faster than everyone else, you will become a leader, and xAI's speed has surpassed all other companies - almost no opponent can come close. Just because we have reached a certain scale, the company is reorganizing around this scale to improve overall efficiency. In fact, when a company develops to this stage, there will indeed be situations where some people are more suitable for the early stages of entrepreneurship and less suitable for the later stages."