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On the AI frontier, Walter Isaacson mentions that Elon Musk envisions a future where Tesla’s AI operations and XAI—the startup Musk founded—might eventually merge. Musk has always emphasized that Tesla’s AI development isn’t just about autonomous vehicles; it encompasses real-world AI capable of seeing, hearing, and learning from all Tesla vehicles and robots worldwide.
A merger with XAI could accelerate Tesla’s AI capabilities, integrating linguistic, visual, and auditory data into a comprehensive, real-world AI system. Musk’s strategic move to invest $300 million into XAI through Telegram, with its chatbot Grock now integrated into Telegram’s ecosystem, illustrates a commitment to expand AI interfaces beyond vehicles and into daily human interaction spaces.